Cheerful Giving

The Sister Study Breast Cancer Research

In 1990 my world changed, my mother had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Five years later, on Dec-1995 she passed away due to luekimia that developed through her many treatments. Since 1990 I have often wondered what caused her illness. Was it stress, our home, the home where she grew up, our genetic makeup? This is the question that the Sister Study, lead by Dr. Dale Sandler, PHD, is attempting to answer.

The Sister Study is conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health. 50,000 women, ages 35-74, from all walks of life, will join this landmark effort to find causes of breast cancer.

The thought behind the study is that Sisters share many things - early experiences, environments, and genes. The organization concludes that studying women whose sisters had breast cancer is a great way to learn why some women get the disease, while others do not. Breast cancer is the main diseases they will study, they will also use this research to understand causes of heart disease, osteoperosis, and other forms of cancer in women.

They need women from every state and every walk of life. From all backgrounds, occupations, races, and ethnicity so that the result will benefit all women.

They currently working on a similar study called 2Sister Study. Where they will be tracking 1,600 younger diagnosed breast cancer warriors to see what may have caused their illness. This research has not launched yet, but it should be interesting compared to what they may learn from this original Sister Study.

If you are a woman that has had a sister diagnosed with Breast Cancer please sign up. This research will go a long way towards the health of many women.

"Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." 2Cor9:7