COMMENT: We can put Daffodil Day down in our diaries
IT SEEMS wherever we turn we are greeted with the cancer message and public appeals to help fight the disease.
The good news is the persistence of the public appeals is slowly outweighing that of the disease - which means we are winning the fight.
Next month Cancer Council Queensland will conduct its annual Daffodil Day appeal with the goal of raising just under $2 million to go towards lifesaving research and support services.
The council reminds us today that about 9% of regional cancer-related deaths could be prevented if survival rates in the bush were as good as those in the city.
The outcome for cancer sufferers in regional centres is nowhere as good as those living closer to available treatment facilities.
We also are told that the farther away from the city we live the worse the expected outcome will be.
The council tells us that this year about 150 Warwick residents will fall victim to cancer in some form.
The council's army of helpers will be out in shopping malls and city halls to sell freshly grown daffodils, pins, pens and toys.
We all live with a financial balancing act in today's tough economic times but it will be of immeasurable value and may save a life if we stop and buy something on Daffodil Day.
And the life we save could be our own.
