Incidence and Mortality: The Lung Cancer Blog

Incidence: How often "it" happens 

Mortality: How often someone dies from "it"

I learned these words 5 year ago when I was employee at The American Cancer Society. Little, did I know I had learned the meaning of these words almost 10 years prior.

I had to wait until November to do this post because October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and I have an unhealthy relationship with breast cancer.  And no, I don't hate it the way you think I do...I hate it in a different way. It's an almost envious...jealous kind of thing.  This is going to be hard to explain but I am going to try. I hope I do it justice in the process. 

Rolling Hills...

Listen First.

I saw Jill perform this song on the BET awards the other day and just had to delve a little deeper. Once I really got a chance to absorb the lyrics, I  have had in on repeat ever since. I wish I could make every woman in America memorize the lyrics to this song. Man. Jill Scott is such an amazing songstress but she is an even more amazing poet and wordsmith. She has another poem off her live album that eludes to this same sentiment (Please Listen, it will give this post so much more context). It’s about the challenges of carrying a woman’s body before you have a woman’s mind. Awesome, Awesome…Awesome.