Cancer survivors Lance Armstrong and Elizabeth Edwards kicked off the program with statistics: Cancer kills 550,000 Americans and six million people worldwide each year.
"That's the equivalent of 9/11 every two days," Armstrong said.
"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell." ~Lance Armstrong
I love it when the networks come together, dismiss the competition, and not worry about ratings or advertising. And they do it for a comment cause. Cancer is an illness that has been a part of just about everyones lives. It seems that everyone has either suffered from cancer, known someone who has suffered from cancer or has lost a friend or family member to the disease.
It's a terrible disease, one that needs to be cured. I have a hard time understanding cancer. I don't know why, but cancer makes me angry. It's so stupid. There's no reason for it. There's no purpose for making someone so sick, for placing a fear in them so great, for terrorizing them and their families.
It makes you wonder why God allows disease like this in the world. I know, I know...without struggle we'd have no joy. You can't have one without the other...Or something like that...
Still, I believe we, as the US could place so much more effort and money into Cancer research.
Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~John Diamond
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