March 4, 2010
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Our mission here at Remember Betty is to make sure the legacy of my mother, Betty Wood, lives on. Betty Wood was a wonderful mother and wife, and the warmest person and I feel that it’s important that her pain and struggle with Breast Cancer is remembered – and her life wasn’t in vain.
Breast cancer is a fight that, according to the American Cancer Society, women have a chance of one in eight of eight of getting. In 2009, there were 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer, and 40,170 deaths related to breast cancer in the US. It’s the 2nd most common cancer among women in the US, right behind skin cancer – and it’s the second leading cause of cancer death in women, right after lung cancer.
For those women who contract breast cancer, the chance of dying is about 1 in 35.
And that’s just part of the equation – people don’t discuss this much, but men can and do come down with this disease as well.
This fight is one that absolutely needs to be fought with utmost vigor – and we need to win it. My hope is that this website will help create awareness and end up motivating people to join in our fight against this dreadful and deadly disease.
Please join me in Remembering Betty in all of her glory – she was a good wife, good mother and so much more. Did you know she was one heck of a lucky online slot player! She would visit US player friendly casinos frequently, and always managed to at least break even. And sometimes, she’d win big!
Whenever the feeling of loss seems overwhelming, I logon to her favorite websites and play slots for a while. I don’t know – it just makes me feel better…
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I lost my daddy almost two years ago to lung cancer. I really know how you feel to lose someone you really love and is close to. Its not easy. Take Care Danny!!!