BC.... The " sexy " cancer
I feel the need to post after reading a letter to the editor of the Sunday telegraph today that has really upset me.
A very mixed up reader wrote " its up to funding bodies and the government to make ...
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This has not changed today a friend received a letter requesting a donation. Below is her post.... she like me and many of us here are very aware that no cancer is sexy....
I was sent a letter asking to donate to bowel cancer research. That's fine, I do what I can when I can. What annoys me is they say bowel cancer isn't the 'sexy' cancer.......WTF?????? Which cancer is sexy???!!! If they are in fact referring to breast cancer, I can assure them, it is far from being sexy. Some of us are left with only one breast, some are left with none.....how sexy is that? We go through all the ops & treatments, same as any other cancer......definitely NOT sexy. Whoever writes these letters needs to rethink their wording, I am really insulted. It's bad enough having to read, ' imagine how scary a cancer diagnosis is'.....I don't have to imagine it mate, I've lived it.....every day of my life since diagnosis. Yes, I do realise they don't know people's realities that they send these letters to....