The War Against Cancer
This is the second part of a guest blog post written by Dave Dubin. Read the first part here. Let’s see how far we’ve come… Since 2007, we have written, made appearances, and held events in order to bring awareness to what I have gone through with the goal of reaching a younger audience, including women. Every conference we’ve attended has talked about the under-fifty age group, whose numbers are increasing every year, as well as genetics and genetic testing, even genomics.Soccer is a worldwide game, with as many women participating as men, and it encompasses all ages and levels of ethnicity and socioeconomic background. We have had events with women’s and men’s professional soccer teams from the National Women’s Soccer League, Major League Soccer, North American Soccer League and college teams. My voice has been used to narrate videos and I’ve moderated a webinar about knowing your family history. Today, cancer is as much about finding the proverbial “needle in the haystack” as it is about curing and prevention. Immunotherapy is a big topic. If a group of individual family members all get a certain genetic mutation, and only two of the three siblings are affected by the disease, […]
