Dear Family and Friends!
Would you give up your daily mocha or latte for a week for a good cause? Please consider donating those lattes to our cause!
We are in desperate need of your help to meet our recommitment deadline. I must raise $875.00 by Thurday, March 25, 2010!
We have some fundraisers lined up but they are not until April and Liz and I really need your help! ANYTHING an EVERYTHING helps.
Interesting Facts:
Among Mexican American and Puerto Rican women, cervical cancer incidence is
two to three times higher than in non-Hispanic White women. (2)
Even though Hispanic women have lower rates of breast cancer (69.8 per 100,000) compared to non-Hispanic White women or Black
women (111.8 and 95.4 respectively), breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Hispanics.
Poverty, lack of insurance, low education, limited access to health care, lack of awareness of breast cancer risks and screening methods,
physician referrals, acculturation levels and barriers related to language, culture, and negative provider attitudes, play an important role
in the lower rates of screening services utilization by Hispanic women.
Cervical cancer risk is high among Latinas, with incidence rates that are double those of Whites. This risk differential has not appreciably improved over the last decades. Cervical cancer mortality is also markedly higher among Latinas.
In males and females, incidence of primary liver cancer is about twice as high as for non-Latinos in the same area. Rates of primary liver cancer appear to be particularly high among Mexican Americans in Texas, even when compared to Latinos in California or
other regions.
The five most frequently diagnosed cancers among Hispanic men are prostate, lung and bronchus, colon and rectum, urinary bladder and stomach.
The five most frequently diagnosed cancers among Hispanic women are breast, colon and rectum, lung and bronchus, cervix uteri, and corpus uteri.
The five most common types of cancer deaths among Hispanic men are lung and bronchus, prostate, colon and rectum, stomach, and pancreas.
The five most common types of cancer deaths among Hispanic women are breast, lung and bronchus, colon and rectum, pancreas, and ovary.
While Latinos represent about 12% of the population, they make up 25% of the Nation’s uninsured. They are almost three times less likely to have a consistent source of medical care, so they rely more heavily on emergency room treatment. In fact, Latinos are 1.5 times more likely to use the hospital ER as a primary source of care compared with the general population.
Sixty percent of Latinos have insurance through their jobs - compared to 85% of non-Hispanics. Among children, 30% of Latinos areuninsured - compared to nearly 20% of Black children and 13% of Whites.
Uninsured Hispanics are two to three times more likely to have cancer diagnosed at a later stage, making it less treatable. Uninsured Hispanic women with breast cancer are 2.3 times more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage while uninsured Hispanic men with prostate cancer are 3.75 times more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!
** For more facts check out
iccnetwork.org/cancerfacts/ICC-CFS4.pdf -http://pages.teamintraining.org/rm/sunrise10/jazminchavez
