The platform for her title year as Ms World Leather 2003 is to reach
as many people as possible and teach them to "Get The 411"
on breast cancer, early detection saves lives. Also, to make the men
aware that it is NOT just a women's disease.
You may have seen
a pin like this somewhere in your
travels across the country. This is the pin design that
Goddess Lakshimi has decided upon for her year as
Ms World Leather
The "Get the 411" Plan
One Community
The Leather Community - Becoming educated about Breast Cancer and Early
Detection.
One Commitment
To teach the importance of EARLY DETECTION, knowing your body and educating
everyone how to do self-breast examinations.
Once a Month
Challenge both male and female Dominants, submissives, tops, bottoms
and switches to do a complete self-breast examination, or have someone
do it for them.
Once a Year
Challenge those women who are over 40 or have a history of Breast Cancer
in their family to have an annual mammogram.
Click here to fund a free http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Who is at risk?
Everyone,
breast cancer is a non discriminate disease.
Did you know that every 12 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer?
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women in the
United States, second only to skin cancer. Breast cancer is the second
leading cause of cancer deaths for all women (after lung cancer),
Every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
This year more than 200,000 new cases of breast cancer are expected
in the United States.
One woman in eight who lives to age 85 will develop breast cancer during
her lifetime.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages
of 40 and 55.
1,600 men will die of breast cancer this year.
Seventy percent of all breast cancers are found through breast self-exams.
Not all lumps are detectable by touch. We recommend regular mammograms
and monthly breast self-exams.
Eight out of ten breast lumps are not cancerous. If you find a lump,
don't panic-call your doctor for an appointment.
Mammography is a low-dose X-ray examination that can detect breast cancer
up to two years before it is large enough to be felt.
When breast cancer is found early, the five-year survival rate is 96%.
This is good news! Over 2 million breast cancer survivors are alive
in America today.
Minorities are hit hardest because of little or no health insurance
and/or lack of knowledge on how to do a Self Breast Exam. Both the cause
of breast cancer and its cure remain undiscovered.
Need more information go to http://www.nabco.org
or http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/index.html
American Cancer Society @ www.cancer.org,
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization @ www.y-me.org
, (800) 221-2141 or Cancer Care, Inc. @ www.cancercare.org,
(800) 813-HOPE.
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Last Updated April 13, 2006
