A message to the ladies from Joe Biden

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071019/NEWS/710190345

Today is National Mammography Day
Posted Friday, October 19, 2007
On the eve of today's recognition as National Mammography Day, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., urged women to get the potentially life-saving exams and encouraged families to support efforts for early detection of breast cancer.

The Senate recently passed Biden's resolution marking Oct. 19 as National Mammography Day for a 15th consecutive year.

"We know that thousands of lives can be saved each year with early breast cancer detection," Biden said. "Every year, there is better medicine, better technology and a better shot at curing breast cancer at every stage. National Mammography Day is one small part of making this dream a reality."

To learn more about breast cancer and participating mammography facilities offering discounted mammograms this month, Biden urged Delawareans to contact the American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org or (800) 4-CANCER, the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition at www.debreastcancer.org or (302) 778-1102, or the Web site of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month at www.nbcam.com.

The American Cancer Society says about 3 million women are living with breast cancer and about 2.3 million have been diagnosed.

I expected to click on it and hear Barry White playing in the background.

:hi:

I Love Barry White too! And thank you for the Barry white link, it was fitting playing in the Background, reading the rest of the responses.

no boob jokes from me today. Too serious a topic. Biden does care more than Just bieng President!
Hope Edwards Wife is doing Well (winning) today also.

Hmmmm, must be a glitch in my computer. :silly:

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But sometimes I think he's a real stand up guy.
Thanks Joe, for looking out for boobies everywhere!


/yes, I did just type that but it was a joke.
please dont hurt me......

but decided not to.:eyes:

yes ladies, I know cancer is no laughing matter.
Joe Biden talking about boobs is though!

Joe Biden...another boob for boobs!

I thank Senator Biden for reminding women everywhere to self-check, get mammograms, take no chances. It's just so...Democratic of him. You don't see Chucklenuts, Dead Eye Dick, Lush Limpballs, O'Lielly Fucker Carlson or even Tweety thinking of anyone but themselves and knocking 12-year old kids and toddlers.

And, yes, I can still laugh at boob jokes although in all honesty dumb ass Bush jokes are funnier...and easier to come up with.

Did you catch it in time?

Hope so!

:hug:

diagnoses, changes in doctors and treatments plans, tests and such I start chemotherapy on Monday "just to be safe." I am still waiting for the results of an Oncotype Dx test that would have given me the likelihood of a recurrence and maybe I could have avoided chemo all together. A test that should have taken 8-10 days is now creeping up on five weeks and still no results. You wouldn't believe all of the excuses I've gotten. Decided to hell with it, take the chemo and move on.

Thanks for asking. Now be sure to keep yourself and your loved ones safe. And don't forget, that while it is rare about 10-12% of breast cancers are found in men so don't overlook anyone (learned that in one of my American Cancer Society booklets).

because of a family member - I know those excuses. You have to stay on top of them. I had to be a raving lunatic at times just to get anything done. And in the end I was often told that I made them do their job better. I had to, I was fighting for someone's life...and we won. So keep that in mind. They are there for you.

How long do you have to go through chemo? I wish you the best. Keep me posted on how it's going.

May God bless you and your doctors. :grouphug:

Thanks Joe..thanks for caring.For true.

I couldn't keep from laughing at your subject heading. All the more reason to support the guy.

of my body should be checked? There are plenty of women in power, as well as health organizations that do that on a regular basis.

Maybe if his wife had breast cancer, or there were some other reason for it be a personal thing for him. Otherwise, I don't take my medical cues from men, any more than they should listen to me about when to get their genitalia or prostate gland checked.

Yeah, how dare you tell me to get my prostate gland checked!
Sheesh, next thing you know you'll be telling me you care about me.
Perhaps if he had MD in front of his name?

Katie talked all about the colon. But the prostate?

I dont know how many women come out and talk about mens health in public.
If they do, they are most likely either ignored or it wouldnt seem that unusual
in the first place.
On the other hand if you asked a male political candidate if he supported
using public funds to educate women about breast exams and he turned around and
said "whats a breast exam?" you'd be even more bent out of shape.
I dont think breast cancer awareness is a subject for political debate.
In reality its about preventing death.

Now, if your a bit perturbed about the comments in the beginning of this thread,
ok, you got me. I and some of the other men here couldnt help but act like little
boys when someone was talking about female anatomy.
Some times its fun to cut loose and have a laugh, thats all.

You weren't being attacked. Gosh, DU has gotten really awfully touchy with all the flame wars, lately.

I just wondered how many women actually came out and talked about prostate cancer. Would a female pol be ignored if she told males to get checkups for prostate cancer? And in a very nice way? And I wonder if women on DU would start laughing about "Turn your head and cough, dude," if a female pol did try to tell guys to protect their health.

It's not about you. It's about society. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

they should all go in for a prostate exam because of the possibility of prostate cancer. Technically, she's correct, of course. But such phony political hype is uncalled for. Men and their doctors don't need a female political candidate who is not personally or professionally involved in a particular disease to suddenly start spouting off warnings to the opposite sex about how they should check their privates.

It's a clear bid by Biden to get female votes.

OTOH...if it turns out that his wife has/had breast cancer, that would give him an excuse.

I wonder what Biden's health care plan is to pay for all the mammagrams he's recommending.

always ranks as one of the highest states with breast cancer. You can read his original floor statement here:

http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=229877&&

I have stood on this floor many, many times over the past 28 years to laud people, programs, and events in Delaware. There is one statistic in my State, however, that I am not fond of repeating, but it is a sad fact that we must, and are, confronting: Delaware has one of the highest breast cancer death rates in the country.

You're always on top of the issues.

I can't believe he is getting bashed in this thread for wanting to be pro-active in the fight against breast cancer.

in other candidates, that when they realize how right Joe can be, how dead on and honest he is on issues, they have to try to bash the guy to justify their commitment to "their" candidate. I think secretly, they may want to vote for Joe.

I have to pinch myself around here when certain people now come to Biden's defense.

I started getting busy here in February to promote Joe. Things have definitely gotten better since then :)

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