FORMER SURVIROR CONTESANT DIES.
All the more reason to get checked...EARLY DETECTION IS THE BEST PROTECTION!!
www.UsMagazine.com is reporting that Jennifer Lyon, a contestant on Survivor Palau, has died at age 37. Lyon finished in fourth place in the reality competition’s tenth season, which aired back in 2005. She was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer at age 33, just two months after the show wrapped. Lyon got a double mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy and battled the disease for the final four years of her life. She last appeared at a breast cancer charity event in New York last summer, where she received a standing ovation after giving a speech.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE TALKS BREAST CANCER
New health guidelines are saying that women don’t need to get mammograms until they are 50, when the usual age to start receiving them was 40. Breast-cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge spoke to People magazine at the American Music Awards about the situation saying, “We have gotten ourselves into a big, deep hole in the way that we look at healthcare. We are in a system where they get money when we're sick. That’s never going to work for us. So when someone says, ‘You don’t need a mammogram until you’re 50,’ you take charge of that. I don’t trust any of that.”
What you can do....
to support Breast
Cancer Research.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15051954/
Who gets breast cancer...
1 in 8 women or 12.6% will get breast cancer in their lifetime!!! Wow!!!
Meet the Backstreet Boys & help fight cancer!
The Backstreet Boys are proud to be taking part of Pinktober, the Hard Rock Café’s annual month-long breast cancer awareness program. Today between 4 and 7 PM, the GRAMMY Award-winning band will be taking over New York City’s Hard Rock Café in Times Square to meet fans, sign their brand new CD, This Is Us, and help raise money for local, national and international cancer charities. The group will continue to support this great cause by flying to Los Angeles on Thursday to meet and greet fans at The Hard Rock Café in Universal City, California at 7 PM. All fans have to do is purchase one of the following three donation packages to take part in these special events: a 17 dollar donation will get you an autographed CD and a chance to meet the guys. A 30 dollar donation will get you an autographed CD and will ensure you move to the front of the line to meet the band. A 40 dollar gift will get you the signed CD, a t-shirt and will ensure you are amongst the first in line to meet the guys. The Backstreet Boys’ new studio album, This Is Us, hits stores tomorrow. <JC>
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