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Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 | 2 a.m.
It was in the evening 35 years ago when Mary Beth Scow’s mother called to tell her she had breast cancer. It was especially significant to her Thursday morning when the county installed pink lights for Breast Cancer Awareness Month on the landmark “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. “It’s a reminder to women, and men who have women in their lives, to take steps for early detection,” said Scow, one of seven Clark County commissioners endorsing the change. At 49 years old, Scow’s mother caught the disease early. She remembers the crushing weight of that news and she has ...
Breat cancer awareness is a teriffic means of warning all sexes of cancer in children and cervical cancer in women which can be so easy to be undetected in PAP readings and smears on slides and elsewhere. The dye on the slide may not be perfect and may not show the cells are being cancerous and the brush may not pick up the cells if the cells have not been brushed in the place where the cells have misread in translation of being messenger cells in the DNA of the patients cervix.
So not only does the Welcome to Las Vegas sign approach the idea of carcinomum in the derma but also the hidden cells of the cervix that can so easily be missed by today's best technological means of brushing and PAP SMEARS. Ultrasound can pick up on some erractic cells in the pelvic region that might be suspicious and MRI might be used to ascertain the suspicious cells however methods of detection are best when the prevention of cervical cancer is used such as injections of vaccines similar to shingles injections that do not committ to a persons religious ethical policies of dogma.
Secondhand smoke increases a woman's risk of breast cancer by 68%. (CA EPA)
Why would smoke-filled Vegas welcome women to breast cancer?
Perhaps while the "Welcome to Las Vegas" signs don the cancer awareness pink lightbulbs, mobile cancer screening units can be parked, staffed, and ready to screen those who suddenly think about it, and they can conveinantly get screened on the spot.
Las Vegas has events supporting cancer awareness and support to those facing or afflicted with cancer...so why not step it up and be proactive with such an opportunity???
Blessings and Peace,
Star