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much better chance of surviving can-
cer. It isn’t always easy because most
cancer’s early warning signs can easily
be ignored or misdiagnosed for a more
benign problem which can often waste
precious time.”
Another huge part of the Cancer
Schmancer campaign is doing what
ever we can to detox our homes. “The
home is often the most toxic place
we can be in, and we spend the most
time in this environment, which is
often more toxic than living across the
street from an oil refinery. Kids today,
for the first time in US history are
not predicted to live longer than their
parents. Babies are born pre-polluted
with 200-300 chemicals found in the
umbilical cord, and we want to turn
this situation around so as to not make
that prediction a self-fulfilling prophe-
cy. We want to educate families, as well
as teens, about what they are putting
in their mouth, on their skin, and in
their living environment. Once you

Catch it on arrival
95% survival

begin to see the level of toxins you are
surrounding yourself with, just in your
daily lifestyle, you can better equate
how compromised your immune
system becomes and how that is the
biggest component for why we are
experiencing disease.”
Although, Fran has been actively
working as an actress with two addi-
tional sitcoms, which followed “The
Nanny,” and a number of movies, she
has also taken on numerous respon- would hold such a serious and life speak about what I am most passion-
sibilities to help educate and inform changing position as she currently ate about. Health advocacy, ecology,
women. Fran Drescher is currently a does. “I never realized it would be and civil liberties.”
US State Department public diploma- this active or involved or effective on Thank you, Fran Drescher for the
cy envoy for Women’s health issues the general public, but I feel like, I got many lives you have saved by helping
and has championed the passage of famous, I got cancer and I lived to talk to provide early cancer detection for
laws such as Joanna’s Law. about it, so I am talking. I am also an women and teaching women to slow
Looking back at the trajectory of actress, writer, producer, and direc- down, take a breath and be aware of
Fran’s career in show business Fran tor. I like to keep active and current their surroundings, their health and
would never have expected that she in these areas, so I have a platform to their lives.

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