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Originally posted by Sweet Fig!:
FI all de peeps touched by Cancer one way or anudder (eidah thru famalee or demself) ....figgy went Sattidey and walk in de Atlanta walk in all ayyuh haanar.....me haart wid ayyuh

Thank you so much Figgie. So far I do not have any family member with Breast Cancer.

Very good friend presently is a survivor.

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Originally posted by Sweet Fig!:
FI all de peeps touched by Cancer one way or anudder (eidah thru famalee or demself) ....figgy went Sattidey and walk in de Atlanta walk in all ayyuh haanar.....me haart wid ayyuh

thank you Figs! .

Thanks to all that contributed to this thread, and to those that read it.

Some of us have members in our family who have been dealt this deadly disease, while others know of someone who have died or is/has been suffering from it.

Cancer comes in all form whether it is Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Colon and Rectal Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Endometrial Cancer or Prostate Cancer, and rear it's ugly head when we least expect.

The struggle to find a cure must go on and we must never think that it cannot happen to one of us or a member of our family. We never know what the future holds.

Later I will move this thread to the archive section.

Heard this on the news a few days ago, thought I should share.

Ohio wife, husband both battling breast cancer

Mon Oct 12, 3:04 pm ET

MONROE, Ohio – A husband and wife are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a case that illustrates how the disease can strike both sexes. Mike and Barbara Welsh, of Monroe, in southwestern Ohio, each had surgery this year after separate discoveries that they had breast cancer.

Barbara Welsh, 63, had surgery in January, went through chemotherapy and is now starting radiation treatments.

After surgery in July, her 62-year-old husband is determining the next step in his recovery, which may include chemotherapy and radiation. He had a modified radical mastectomy on his right breast.

Mike Welsh says he is speaking up about his cancer to make other men aware that breast cancer is not just something that strikes women.

"If I could help 10 people or 100, that's a start," said Welsh, a retired AK Steel bricklayer.

Male breast cancer is still rare, with about 1,900 cases expected to be diagnosed this year, with about 440 men dying from the illness.

Mike Welsh first noticed something was wrong when he got into his car and felt discomfort as he strapped the seat belt across his chest.

After his wife began her treatments, he asked his doctor if men could get breast cancer. His doctor referred him to the Compton Center at Atrium Medical Center, in Middletown, where he got the diagnosis.

The couple, married 41 years, laugh about their experience to help stave off the depression that sunk in after their diagnoses.

"You've got to laugh at it," Mike Welsh said. "You have good days, bad days and better days. We're having fun with it."

He and his wife joke that she glows from radiation treatment that she has begun.

"I'm going to set her outside for Halloween," Mike Welsh said.

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Information from: The JournalNews of Hamilton, http://www.journal-news.com/cg...i$schjnfront?jnfront

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