Facts

Total Research Funding per death, 2007
Breast Cancer 24,000
Prostate Cancer 12,000
Lung Cancer $1,400

Five Year Survival Rates, 2007
Breast Cancer 87%
Prostate Cancer 99%
Lung Cancer 15%

(facts provided by the Joan Greata Lung Cancer Foundation Newsletter)

Kaleidoscope

You have to make this event on your calendar so you can check it out. Tune into FOX from 4:00-5:30 p.m. (EST) on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26) 2009 – immediately following the FOX Thanksgiving Day football telecast – “Kaleidoscope on Ice.” This combines the beauty of ice skating, the excitement of song, and the brave message of Suvivorship to raise awareness of key issues surrounding women and cancer. (Don't miss Superstar Cancer Survivors: Olivia Newton-John, Dorothy Hamill & Scott Hamilton (both making a historic return to the ice) in the most touching and entertaining holiday special ever.


Kaleidoscope is an event that focuses on issues and events surrounding women and cancer. Kaleidoscope is a program designed to recognize women and the key role they play in the battle against cancer - as patients, caregivers, and advocates. Its mission is to address issues surrounding women and cancer by helping educate women to be proactive with their health and by honoring all cancer survivors, including the more than 713,000 women who are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States.

For more information http://www.womenandcancer.com./

This video was made by a junior high student and his principal watched the video. The principal was a smoker for the past 42 years. He was so moved by the pic of the grandfather dying, he stopped smoking that day and called his daughter who had just “given” him his first grandchild and told her she would not have to watch him die….

Each one … reach one… we make the difference!