Today is Melanoma Monday, a day wherein you are taught about skin care cancer prevention as well as early detection. This day was established by American Academy of Dermatology. One of the common diseases in U.S. is skin cancer. Nearly one million people are diagnosed with this disease every year. One person dies every hour of melanoma in U.S. Always wear a sunscreen lotion if you are out in sun. There is a new way of reminding you to reapply sunscreen and let you know if you’re getting too much sun exposure. It’s called the UV Sun Sense wristband.

A new study says Acupressure wristbands can help cancer patients get 25% less nausea during radiation treatment. Wristbands put pressure on a “nausea point” identified by traditional Chinese acupuncture. The pressure acts to change the flow of universal chi energy, according to the Eastern belief. The study found that 88 people who experienced nausea after radiation treatments for cancer. Some were given wristbands to wear, and the others were not. And about half of those in the wristband group were also given information that explicitly said the wristbands cut down on nausea, whereas handouts given to the others with wristbands contained more neutral information. Those with wristbands experienced a 24 percent decrease in nausea, regardless of which set of information they were given before the experiment. The group without wristbands reported just a 5 percent lessening of nausea.

Lawson Phillips died in 2007 due to Cancer was remembered on 21st January. People who loved him like his parents, and his family members’ together Junior Twisters football team and Bayou Meto Student council made a donation of nearly $10,000 to make a wish foundation in Mid-south. Funds were raised with the help of all these people. On November 2007, Lawson went into coma after being diagnosed with brain tumor. He did not make a wish and died after a month. Lorey Phillips said that the fund raised is used to fulfill another child’s wish that is in life threatening medical condition. Money that is raised from selling rubber wristband can fulfill wishes of two children. People from churches were asking for wristbands. Many people form Arkansas Children Hospital started asking for 25-100 wristbands through email.

Sean Korpal, 12, of Harrison Twp., and his team members in the hockey team have adopted pink color to support Korpal’s mom, Kristine Korpal, 44, who has breast cancer. The name of the hockey team is Mounting Clemens Lighting Pee wee Team. This hockey team has wrapped their hockey sticks with pink tape. The hockey team has also put pink ribbons on their helmets, and worn pink wristbands to create awareness for breast cancer.

Many people are unaware of the beginning of breast cancer wristbands. The bracelets are one of the fundraisers that seem to be sticking around and making a declaration with each new wrist they style. The phenomena happening with the yellow cancer wristband worn by Lance Armstrong, people are alert of fight Armstrong had with testicular cancer, because he is a well known sportsperson, he was very open about dealing of disease. Once he started wearing the bright yellow wristband, the trend started exponentially. Dedicated on the heels of yellow cancer wristbands were the light pink breast cancer wristbands. Nobody was willing to call the baby pink breast cancer wristband a knock-off of Lance Armstrong’s bracelets, that would be certainly be the idea. Perhaps even faster than the yellow wristband, the breast cancer wristband became the new fundraiser.

Everybody wanted a breast cancer wristband to show there support of investigation and progress to fight this deadly illness, because other breast cancer alertness movements were taking place, it seemed like future would grow in reputation. The sale of pink bracelets is still strong. The reason that the wristband market has became so weak with mass production that no one can keep them all straight. You should be very careful while ordering a breast cancer wristband, so that fund should go in the correct cause.