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Article: Make brain cancer awareness a priority This year, more than 186,000 will be diagnosed with a brain tumor. Incidences of brain tumors are increasing.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 6, 2004
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FEATURED LETTER
When you see people wearing a pink ribbon, you know they are
supporting breast cancer awareness. If someone is wearing a yellow
ribbon, it is in support of our troops. What about a gray ribbon? The
gray ribbon is worn in support of brain cancer awareness. Somehow,
some way, we have to make the gray ribbon just as well-known as a
pink ribbon.
Before Sept. 5, 2003, my daughter, Lori Arquilla Andersen, was
living a normal life. She had just gotten married on Memorial Day
weekend. She had one class to go at UIC to get her degree in
anthropology. Her husband, Erik, is an architect. They were looking
forward to a bright future in their new house, which would someday
include ...