Merci la #FNSEA
#cancer

#Trump Is Shutting Down the War On #Cancer https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/cancer-research-grants-funds-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.v3ms.StTMcAN574QY&smid=url-share

Every once in a while the #NYTimes manages an accurate headline: "#Trump is shutting down the war on #cancer." https://archive.is/pcTn6

I generated a gift link for this so I'll share it here too. I spent a good chunk of my adult life working on cancer research, so this is heartbreaking. #uspol #cancer #research

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/cancer-research-grants-funds-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.r63v.5RTbLcCj5wB6&smid=url-share

"Along with introducing new equipment, and rethinking the atmosphere of hospitals, they made it possible for patients to be treated with chemotherapy at home. New national standards also govern how quickly Danes must be treated."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c701kw519lpo

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an international health campaign that’s held every October. The month aims to promote screening and reduce the risk of the disease, which affects 2.3 million womenworldwide. https://github.com/Breast-Cancer-Awareness-Month-2025/

14-year-old Heman Bekele developed a revolutionary soap that reactivates immune cells to fight skin #cancer, inspired by memories of people working under the harsh Ethiopian #sun.

His #invention costs just $0.50 to produce compared to $40,000 cancer treatments, and he's now working at Johns Hopkins to bring it to underserved communities worldwide.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/teenager-soap-cancer-rep/

"The U.S. government will provide wildfire fighters with masks to protect against smoke — reversing a decades-long ban that exposed workers to toxins known to cause cancer and other serious diseases."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/wildfires-masks-firefighters.html

"Ahead of the 24th anniversary of 9/11, Democrats are demanding answers from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the future of the federal World Trade Center Health Program, which covers treatment for 9/11-related illnesses such as cancer and chronic coughs."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/democrats-demand-answers-kennedy-delayed-actions-911-health-program-rcna230358

If you have boobs, gettem squooshed!

Mammogram every 2 years, more often if you have a family history of breast cancer or if you notice any changes.

CAL FIRE News Release

RELEASE DATE: September 9, 2025

CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS JOIN FORCES WITH UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RESEARCHERS TO STUDY CANCER RISK

The study is supported by $9.7 million in funding from CAL FIRE and involves 3,500 firefighters from departments across California over a two-year period.

SACRAMENTO — The Governor's Office made the announcement today of a major new research effort led by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Davis (UC Davis), in collaboration with CAL FIRE, that is investigating how occupational exposures may increase cancer risk among California firefighters. The project, a sub-study of the California Firefighter Cancer Research Study (CAFF-CRS), is backed by nearly $9.7 million in funding from CAL FIRE and will include 3,500 firefighters from departments across the state over a two-year period.

The research team is guided by a firefighter advisory board to ensure the study remains grounded in real-world needs and priorities.

“This research underscores CAL FIRE’s commitment to protecting firefighter health through science, innovation, and partnership,” says CAL FIRE Director, Chief Joe Tyler.

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https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/09/california-firefighters-join-forces-with-uc-researchers-to-study-cancer-risk-amid-trump-cuts/

Many of our politicians went to $40,000.00+/year universities - the top in the world. Their kids go to the same elite schools. They are prepared for the finest lives, with the finest jobs, and the finest starting wealth anyone could ever dream of.

Ours? These privileged punks wrote laws to enslave ours to generational student debt, if ours aren't already propagandized into disillusionment with education by the similarly well-educated and endowed owners of mass media.

When they pretend they didn't know - they knew long before you had the slightest clue. They knew about cigarettes. They knew about toxic waste sites. They knew about poverty. They knew how to eradicate poverty.

They chose to do what they are doing to us now. Every bit of it was a choice by rich and powerful people who, we discover, were in a sex club run for the elites in which children were groomed and gang raped by the planet's lawmakers.

Remember the Catholic church's child rape problem? Imagine the same thing, but with soulless, self-gratifying, politicians and business leaders.

Maybe even a boozy Supreme Court justice or two. As George Carlin might say, "It's a big kid rape club, and you ain't invited."

They knew. We're just finding out.

Rick Davies, #Supertramp Co-Founder, Songwriter, and Singer, Dies at 81 | Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/news/rick-davies-supertramp-founder-and-singer-dies-at-81/

"The Department of Health and Human Services has pulled back a government report warning of a link between cancer and drinking even small amounts of alcohol, according to the authors of the research.

Their report, the Alcohol Intake and Health Study, warned that even one drink a day raises the risk of liver cirrhosis, oral and esophageal cancer, and injuries."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/health/alcohol-drinking-hhs-report.html

This morning he says to me he wants to take it easy, because "today is turning out to be a pain day."

WTF.

I did not realise the cancer was causing him pain. He hides everything from me.

So while I'm hiding my boiling emotions at the so far 12-week wait for ANY form of treatment to start, he says, "I got an email."

Reading it aloud, I learn:
• he declined an experimental study.
• his surgery is 23 Sep, tentatively.
• a 5th imaging scan beforehand.

So: … good news.