Explaining BC to Children...

[MetuandLee]

"Metu and Lee Learn About Breast Cancer" is a new children's book, targeting children ages 5 years and above, whose mothers are diagnosed with breast cancer. It teaches about Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Radiation in terms that children understand. This new children's medical book is authored by Dr. Shenin Sachedina, a board certified breast surgeon in Orlando, Florida. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Metu and Lee Fund through the Community Foundation of Central Florida which will assist organizations that help middle class families when their children are diagnosed with any form of a cancer. To order your copy, or for further information about the Metu and Lee Project, please visit: www.Metuandlee.com

[Christine MH-UK]

I went to the website and it said that breast cancer was BECOMING a disease of younger women, but in the US this is simply not true. Ironically, the latest figures show a decrease in premenopausal women in the US, supposedly linked to rising obesity among the young (although strangely the breast cancer rate among young women is rising in Britain, so go figure, although could be rising alcohol consumption). It is true that more women with dependent children are getting breast cancer as women have babies later in life. I just don't like it when people get their facts wrong.

I wasn't sure about limiting help to the middle class, either. Surely there must also be poor people who need assistance.

[MetuandLee]

To Christine MH-UK-

The fact is that the number of women diagnosed in the United States with Breast Cancer has been on the rise in the last decade. The PERCENTAGE of women who are in their 30's and 40's developing breast cancer has been steady-but as the math dictates, as the numbers rise, so do the number of women who have the disease in that subgroup rises in spite of the fact that the percentage stays the same... the percentage of 240,000 women expected to be diagnosed this year translates into a higher number then in the last 10 years when annually we were seeing 190,000 or less.

So even with the percentage the same, the number of patients in the younger age group is increasing...

The purpose of this book is to educate any woman's child who may need to be educated about breast cancer...