Blaspheme

I was in Target a few days ago and I saw their display of pink office supplies for the cure, and had to catch myself because I had an urge to knock every last item off the self. I had no clue I was that mad. My mom died august 14th 2011 from metastatic breast cancer, and at that moment I felt that what those products stood for had failed my mother and our family. “efing lies” I thought as I walked past them trying not to let my tears fall.

Please don’t think that I am against the Susan G. Koman Foundation and these (fill in the blank) for the cure products, but my question is: how can you cure a disease that we are not sure how it is caused? At 40 years old, with no personal or family history, not genetic markers, and for her cancer not to be caused by hormone, my mother should not have developed breast cancer. Her doctors still don’t even understand it.

My thing right now is instead of trying so hard to find a cure, why not try and find the cause. If you don’t fully understand a disease then how can you cure it? Seriously, there has to be a reason why so many young women are developing breast cancer. Maybe if we try harder to find the cause, then it would be easier to find a cure. I’m just saying…