The first lady, Laura Bush, has pitched in her helping hand in an issue which concerns all women, as it should, breast cancer.  Breast cancer research and the fight to help find better treatments and preventive screenings methods has long been a passion of many women who have both fought the fight themselves at some point, or lost a loved one to breast cancer, or had a loved one go through a terrible battle with the all too common disease. 

Her Mexican counterpart, Margarita Zavala, have joined forces between Mexico and the US in a joint fight to raise breast cancer awareness and make everyone realize how important it is that we all make sure our friends and family member are as protected as possible by going for screenings, and recognizing the risk factors and how they can personally mitigate the risks of breast cancer in their own lives.

They want women to feel encouraged and empowered to seek treatment for suspected breast cancer earlier rather than later and say that societal stigmas against seeking treatment or being uneducated in what the signs of breast cancer could be, and say that women’s breast cancer survival rates can be greatly improved if they can just catch it earlier and encourage women to get the proper medical care leading up to the time in their lives where they are more susceptible, as well as looking out for their family members.

They also say that most cases of breast cancer are detected in later stages when the treatment is more complicated and less effective, and where women have less changes of survival.  They aim to change the stigma related with medical treatments and make it more affordable and accessible to those that need it, which is basically every women alive, especially those that are in the higher risk groups and those that are of a certain age. 

Hopefully the can do some good together by taking it on as a team, and by making it seem like we are more united as women, since this affects every race and nationality of women anyways. 

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