ROGER WICKER: Increase the fight in campaigns against cancer
The trees may be turning red, orange, and yellow as the fall season gets underway, but for many pink is the color of October. Pink ribbons, pink football cleats, and even a pink-painted fighter jet are just a few ways Americans are showing support during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
These popular awareness campaigns and national advocacy efforts have helped save millions of lives through advancements in the prevention, detection, and treatment of breast cancer. Although breast cancer remains the most common cancer in women other than skin cancer, it causes significantly fewer deaths today than it did two decades ago.
The battle, however, is hardly won. According to the American Cancer Society, there will be nearly 250,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer this year. More than 1.6 million Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer. Skin cancer is still the most prevalent – a troubling fact that my wife, Gayle, has highlighted as a member of the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, testifying before the state Senate and penning op-eds focused on prevention.
Daily Journal
10/25/16
Magnolia Tribune
