Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

Doctors‘ investment in radium…the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset.

My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.