Today I ran a 5K to honor all women and to increase awareness of Women's Cancer - Breast and Ovarian. I am amazed by the wonderful turnout at events such as this - there were over 40,000 people there! Revlon Los Angeles is sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, EIF. Lisa Paulson with EIF spoke, along with Tom Selleck, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Halle Berry. Lisa mentioned how she had been touched by cancer in her family and that her dad died of lung cancer last year. I also met a young 17 year old today that lost her mom to lung cancer too at the age of 10. Sad...I know what they have gone through and ARE going through. Losing a loved one, so fast...it isn't fair.
I ran today because I had a lump removed from my left breast 10 years ago, I ran because I am high risk for breast and lung cancer. I ran because cancer runs in my family. What is sad is that 1 out of 7 women will get breast cancer, but sadder is that more than TWICE as many women die from lung cancer than breast cancer! My challenge to all women (and men) is to get checked, to ask your doctor questions, know if you are at higher risk, and look deeper than the breast...look at your lungs too!
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