There was just a story on Today (hats off to them) about a beautiful young lady with ABC, lobbying her super fund to pay out her life insurance after her secondary diagnosis. She's apparently not dying quickly enough to get access to it, but that's another issue... The only problem I saw with the story was that there were no stats to go along with it. The media LOVE stats, as they make it really easy to paint a more compelling picture. We need to be able to quote stats, so let's start collecting them.
Just as the media constantly quote "one in 8 women will get breast cancer", we need something to be able to quote to show what an important cause this is.
For example... X% of women with breast cancer will eventually succumb to it. Or X% of women living with secondary breast cancer are under the age of 40.
I'm not expecting to be able to quote these stats immediately, but we need to be able to quote them in the future.
