In less then 3 weeks we've nearly tripled our amount raised, but we still need your help! We're just 16% of the way to our goal. Please read the following note that Steph wrote recently and consider donating (even if its just a few dollars!) to our cause:
Remember that lung cancer is the leading cancer killer. It kills more people than breast, prostate, colon, liver, kidney and melanoma cancers…COMBINED! It kills almost twice as many women as breast cancer. And that amounts to about 440 people per day. Only 15% of lung cancer patients survive more than five years, with most of those having been early, and probably accidental, diagnoses. 2007 research spending per death for lung cancer, $1,414 (a decrease from 2005), and $23,754 for breast cancer (an increase from 2005).If you are in the Bloomsburg area, check out the fundraisers we are holding locally: http://lungcancerawareness.blogspot.com/2009/09/free-to-breathe-event-update-38-days.html
To follow our progress or make a donation to the team or one of its members visit: http://participate.freetobreathe.org/goto/teamhaney
Stephanie and Rachel,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.
I’m contacting you because I found your site in a health reform blog search and want to tell you about my newest blogging platform —the public concern of health care and its reform. Our shared concerns include health reform, tort reform, public health, safe workplaces, and asbestos contamination.
If you’re confused by the nation’s debate over health care reform, you are not alone. While nearly everyone agrees our health care system is in trouble, the nation is nearly at war with itself over what to do about it. Some say the entire system needs to be overhauled. Others urge caution, pointing to the costs of reform and warning of high taxes and “big government.”
To increase awareness on these important issues, my goal is to get a resource link on your site or even allow me to provide a guest posting. Please contact me back, I hope to hear from you soon. Drop by our site www.maacenter.org in the meantime.
Thanks,
Barbara O’ Brien
barbaraobrien@maacenter.org