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Hey Doll,
I have to talk to you about the terrible state of women's healthcare. How many of us know a mother, sister, daughter or friend who's died from cancer? Everyone I know, knows someone, I can tell you that.
Did you ever hear the joke that goes: A doctor tells a woman patient, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you have 48 hrs to live." The woman says, "If that's the good news, then what's the bad news?" The doctor answers, "I was supposed to tell you yesterday."
Too many women are being told that they have cancer today, when they should have been told yesterday.
I am a uterine cancer survivor, but was misdiagnosed and mistreated for a peri-menopause condition I didn't have. It took me two years and eight doctors before finally being told that I had a gynecologic cancer. I swear I got in the stirrups more times than Will Rogers!
As the result of this experience, I wrote the NY times bestseller Cancer Schmancer with the hopes that in telling my story I would prevent what happened to me to happen to others. But when I went on my book tour, I realized that what happened to me had happened to millions of women like me. And so it was then I realized the book was not the end but rather the beginning of a life mission to improve women's healthcare in America. Toward this end, I have started The Cancer Schmancer Movement.
Our mission is to ensure that ALL women's cancers are diagnosed in STAGE 1, when it is most curable. Early detection equals survival. It's as simple as that. Through education, legislation, and social reform, we will not stop until the very landscape of America's women's healthcare consciousness has been replanted.
Remember-on the day the doctor tells you that you have cancer, he goes home to eat dinner with his family while you go home to eat your heart out with yours!
We need to take control of our bodies, become greater partners with our physicians and galvanize as one to let our legislators know that the collective female vote is louder and more powerful than that of the richest corporate lobbyists. As Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and it never will."
I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages. Please join "The Fran Plan" by becoming a member of the Cancer Schmancer Movement. Together we can do what needs to be done, so less of us will die prematurely.
It's time to put on your sun block and get ready for a new dawn!
Be Well,
Fran Drescher
President & Visionary
Cancer Schmancer Movement
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Trace Adkins
It was because of his daughter’s experience that country music sensation Trace Adkins was motivated to join the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN). “I know firsthand how important FAAN’s efforts to increase funding for food allergy research are,” says Trace.
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Andre Agassi
"Children today face so many obstacles. If I can make a positive impact on at least one child's life, then it has all been worthwhile," says tennis great Andre Agassi who founded the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation.
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Clay Aiken
American Idol and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Clay Aiken is co-founder of National Inclusion Project
While earning his degree, he worked with individuals with autism. Through The National Inclusion Project, Clay envisions a world where children of all abilities are offered the experiences of full inclusion.
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Laila Ali
Laila Ali , an athlete and champion of health and fitness, has always been a strong advocate of promoting women's and girls' involvement in sports and athletics, as well as hunger relief initiatives.
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Muhammad Ali
Since leaving the ring he once dominated, Muhammad Ali has directed his energy and resources to championing the causes of the developing world. The Muhammad Ali Center’s mission is to share the legacy and ideals of Muhammad and to inspire adults and children everywhere to be as great as they can be.
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Aly and AJ
As co-chairpersons for the Children’s Advisory Board of the AmberWatch Foundation, sisters Aly and AJ have also requested that fans attending their concerts make donations to the foundation rather then bringing gifts.
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Reporters are often looking to spotlight new and innovative ways to give during the holiday season, and it doesn’t get any better than GoodSearch and GoodShop.
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American Red Cross for Haiti Relief
First Lady Michelle Obama in partnership with the American Red Cross has released a public service announcement telling people what they can do to help the situation in Haiti.
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Bradford Anderson
Bradford Anderson, a native of Meredith, NH and actor who currently plays the role of “Damian Spinelli” on ABC’s General Hospital, is a supporter and fundraiser for the Manchester Animal Shelter (MAS).
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