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TO: Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee
Stamp Development
U.S. Postal Service
475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 4474E
Washington DC 20260-2437
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| Subject: Proposal for Postage Stamp for Ovarian Cancer Awareness |
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I am aware that Carolyn Benivegna of the Southwest Florida Division of theNational Ovarian Cancer Coalition has submitted a proposal to you in April 2001 for the creation of an Ovarian Cancer awareness stamp. I urge you to do this as quickly as possible.
Ovarian cancer touches so many people in this country. This year, more than 23,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and almost 14,000 will die from it. But it isn't just these diagnosed women who are affected. Their family and friends go on this journey of surgeries, chemotherapies, radiation treatments, and (too often) death right along with these women. The women who lose their lives to this disease often leave behind spouses, children, parents, siblings, and friends.
Ovarian Cancer is the deadliest of all the gynecologic cancers. This is mostly due to lack of awareness and education on the part of women and the
medical community. If these women and their doctors were more aware of ovarian cancer, they could be diagnosed earlier and more than 90% could be saved.
A U. S. Postage Stamp for Ovarian Cancer can go a long way toward making people aware of this deadly disease. Please help all Americans by creating this stamp without delay!
Thank you for your consideration.
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