Cancer Awareness Alert

Hello All,
As a current cancer patient and a soon to be survivor, I have very called to - even during my treatment - to advocate for as many other cancer patients as I possibly can. God has used this blog to create quite the venue to spread information and for that I feel very blessed and I plan on using it as much as God allows me to in order to continue to spread the messages that He wants me to spread.

About 6 months ago I started praying a simple prayer, "God, break my heart for what breaks yours." I would read of how so many of our actions just truly break God's heart and the thought of that brought a great deal of sadness to me. I wanted to gain a greater awareness with regards to what really broke God's heart instead of just what I thought broke God's heart. He has been faithful in revealing these things to me and it hasn't been easy. Sometimes my heart just aches and tears stream from my eyes because of what is going on in this world. I am getting off on a tangent and I feel another blog post in the making. For now I will refocus on to what this post was suppose to be about.

Since my own diagnosis, I have heard of so many stories of other diagnosis of cancer. It seems like this occurs on a daily basis - I hear of someone else being diagnosed with some sort of cancer. I know this is partially due to the fact that I have cancer and I am far more aware, and others now know I have cancer and want to share more with me because they definitely know I can sympathize and I that I will pray. It is also very obvious to me that we are losing the battle on cancer right now. Although the treatments are there - there needs to be far more done on the prevention end of things. I know there are many people out there dedicating their lives to battling this disease and it is my sincere hope that you join me in prayer to lift these people up. I pray that God gives them the wisdom they need to make treatment more efficient and less painful for all patients, and more importantly, that God provides a way that we can prevent cancer before treatment is ever needed.

Today I received an email from my mother-in-law regarding a new type of breast cancer. It is called Paget's Disease and it actually starts with a rash on your breast. Not that I want anyone to freak out but just have an awareness if you develop this symptom that you need to get it checked out and be persistent in finding a diagnosis as this obviously isn't a typical breast cancer symptom. I know with Hodgkin's Lymphoma that there were all kinds of symptoms that you would never guess had anything to do with the Hodgkin's but after being diagnosed and doing research they were.

Now I don't want everyone out there to start panicking or lose sleep over this, just have an awareness of it and so you can use it to educate other people.

Again, please lift all of the cancer patients, cancer survivors, and all of those in the medical field up in prayer. Blessings ~Andrea
 Paget's