Monday, December 1, 2008

Why is breast cancer the cause du jour when heart disease kills many more women than breast cancer

Why is breast cancer the cause du jour when heart disease kills many more women than breast cancer?
It's not even close. The body counts from heart disease are much, much higher.
Football (American) - 8 Answers
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1 :
People always get crazy over cancer, like it's supposed to be the worst thing on the planet. Cry me a river.
2 :
Because breast cancer affects mostly women and we all know how we like to give minorities their own month. The only group of people without a month are white males.
3 :
heart disease is easily preventable in most cases. We don't need to raise money for research on it, we already know what causes it.
4 :
The NFL is full of Boobs. Cheerleaders, T.O., Albert Haynesworth, etc...
5 :
why did you ask this in american football?
6 :
who cares theres no such thing as god so support is weak
7 :
Because boobs are awesome.
8 :
Heart disease has received a lot of attention and funding through the years. Breast Cancer wasn't even talked about in polite circles 30 years ago. Many factors in heart disease are controlled by the person: diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, etc. Breast cancer has no such factors. WIth relationship to the NFL, it probably has something to with the commissioner losing his mother to breast cancer

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