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To educate every person to such a depth is unrealistic I agree, but awareness of all types of cancer wouldn't go a miss. I don't think it's unrealistic to educate people more on different types of cancer/effects etc etc - i'd rather learn about that than useless trigannometry that has so far gotten me no where in life!
There is no doubt that people have charities closer to their heart than others, that's life and totally understandable. No one should feel 'bad' for choosing to donate to different areas of cancer research etc - you're donating and caring and that's the important thing
Well I suppose I'm one of the rare few that hasn't been affected by cancer (yet) so I would rather support the ones that get less recognition because quite frankly - I get sick of hearing about breast cancer. Maybe that's bad of me, but whatever. When it's forced down my throat like it was the other week when the no make up selfies took over my news feed I get sick of it, but same goes for anything that like that when it's literally everywhere and everyone starts sounding like a broken record.
I have lost family members to rarer types of cancer. (one has stomach cancer, the other had spine and lung cancer - he also previously had mouth and throat cancer) and I have to admit I'm sick of hearing about breast cancer too. We do need awareness of the other cancers, many of which are much more rare. Because of how rare spine cancer is, there appears to be a serious lack of information and support out there. Yet, there's a lot of support for much more common cancers, including breast cancer.