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A bill was recently passed providing $30 million a year to pediatric cancer while breast cancer will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. In addition, bolstered by tremendous corporate and public support, charitable organizations dedicated to breast cancer will raise hundreds of millions of dollars to help eradicate the disease. Of course, awareness of breast cancer is vitally important, and funding for research and early prevention clearly saves women's lives, but don't our children deserve the same level of support?
Each and every school day, 46 children, or more than two full classrooms of kids, are diagnosed with cancer in the United States alone. While doctors and researchers have made serious strides in the battle against so many other types of cancer, the lack of funding and awareness for our children has led to an insignificant improvement in survival rates for pediatric cancer over the past decade. As a result, cancer continues to be the number-one disease killer of children in our country, more than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and pediatric AIDS combined!
Our own daughter Alex fought cancer for nearly her entire life. Diagnosed before her first birthday, Alex ultimately lost her life to the disease when she was 8 1/2 years old. During those years, Alex spent an immense amount of time going through experimental treatments, clinical trials, in and out of hospitals and suffering the consequences of so many unknowns associated with those treatments. Plain and simple, almost every treatment that Alex went through was trial and error. In a country with so many technological advances, shouldn't there be more answers?
So the question remains, how does childhood cancer gain the same status as breast cancer as a priority cause? Where do we go from here?
The answer is that the journey begins with each of us
Chronic disease focus of county's new program By MELINDA MAWDSLEY
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Mesa County residents have a higher rate of diabetes and obesity than other Coloradans, prompting local health officials to announce Wednesday a new program aimed at preventing and managing chronic disease.
Tawny Espinoza, prevention and chronic disease manager with the Mesa County Health Department, highlighted a new program called Healthier Living: A Chronic Disease Self-Management Program at a news conference Wednesday at Marrilac Clinic, 2333 N. Sixth St.
Any individual with a chronic disease or who is caring for an individual with a chronic disease can enroll in the Health Department program with six sessions that provide information about controlling, managing and preventing certain chronic diseases.
The program costs $25 per person and will be overseen by LiveWell in Mesa County.
The chronic diseases targeted by the program are asthma, diabetes and other lifelong diseases without a cure but are manageable.
In addition to the new program, the Health Department has other programs targeting smoking cessation and obesity, which can lead to diseases such as heart disease and hypertension.
In Mesa County, 24 percent of adults are obese compared to 18 percent in Colorado, Espinoza said, citing the 2006 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System survey.
Nearly 22 percent of adults smoke in Mesa County compared to 18 percent statewide, she said.
A 2005 study by the Milken Institute, an independent think tank, showed chronic diseases in Colorado cost $16.5 billion annually in terms of lost worker productivity and treatment costs.
WHO TO TALK TO For more information about Healthier Living: A Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, call 683-6650 or e-mail sarah.elliottmesacounty.us
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