John Trudell Spoken Word Artist
John Trudell, Native American Spoken Word artist, appearing in Portland, Oregon, Friday May 2nd, 2008, to support the Cedars-Sinai Women's Cancer Institute. Today, in the United States, one woman will be diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer every seven minutes. That's over 200 women who will be diagnosed just today and close to 80,000 women this year. In sum,these diseases will kill 30,000 women this year alone. "How high does the body count have to go before we call this an epidemic?" asked Trudell. "In a coherent thinking society, we would recognize there is a cancer epidemic in this country. society, we would take responsibility rather than remain in denial about the seriousness of this issue" The
www.givelovegivelive.net benefit is part of a growing movement to build awareness and educate the public about women's health issues in general, and ovarian and gynecologic cancers specifically.
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