[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             BREAST CANCER

  (Mrs. MYRICK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MYRICK. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and as a 
breast cancer survivor, I am very encouraged by all the research that 
goes on and continues to find, hopefully, a cure one day.
  But I want to encourage everybody to be vigilant because this is a 
disease that each one of us has to take care of our own bodies to find. 
I am one of those that was seen by five doctors, and I had three 
mammograms, and everyone told me I was fine and there was nothing 
wrong. But I knew something was wrong because I had pain. So I 
persevered, was able to get an ultrasound, and they found it.
  So my message today is preventive medicine is so important, but it is 
especially important for each one of us as individuals to take care of 
ourselves. And I encourage everyone during this month, to men and women 
alike, because men get breast cancer, too, to get mammograms; if they 
know something is wrong to persevere until they find the answers. And 
one of these days we will not have to stand here because we will have a 
cure for this bad disease.

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