Rubber Cancer Bracelets: a Small, Big Gesture

What prompted ace cyclist Lance Armstrong to hit upon the thinking to use rubber cancer bracelets to fund cancer research? No one knows. But the signature yellow rubber cancer bracelets worn by the seven-time Tour de Force champion and cancer survivor eventually caught on as a common fundraising tool. And young shoppers soon turned wearing them -- in all colors and with all sorts of messages stamped on them -- into a trend.

The rubber wristbands hold been around for decades as 'baller bands' -- worn by basketball players as of restrictions against metal jewelry. But the trend basically caught on with Armstrong's cancer bracelets.

The Lance Armstrong Foundation says that more as opposed to 52 million 'LiveStrong' bracelets have been sold already! But millions of some rubber cancer bracelets suffer also been sold. And that is without counting the millions, maybe billions, of all other sorts of rubber wristbands this experience been sold or are making purchased all over the world -- rubber bracelets for tsunami relief, for showing support to American troops, for just up anything, and nothing! In fact, they are now the coolest thing which anyone can sport on one's wrists. Though called rubber bracelets, these kinds of are actually made of synthetic rubber, or silicone gel.

When you buy a LiveStrong rubber cancer bracelet, $1 from its proceeds is donated to the Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation! That is, $52 million has been heard raised for cancer research already! The LiveStrong rubber cancer bracelets are made by sportswear major Nike. Cancer is 1the second largest cause of death in the United States and one out of uni deaths will come from cancer.

Now you hold a different color rubber cancer bracelet for different types of cancers. In terms of popularity, in the wake of the yellow rubber cancer bracelets appear the pink ones. The pink rubber cancer bracelets are worn as a show of support for breast cancer patients. There are still further colors of bracelets for colon cancers, prostrate cancers, and so on. But it is well nigh impossible to do a color-coding chart for the rubber cancer bracelets and the sorts of cancers properties represent. Simply because so multiple of them are making brought out by different corporations across the world.

There are people who take wearing this rubber cancer bracelets seriously, and there are folks who hate the sight of them. But it can't be disputed that these rubber wristbands hold brought charity to the life of the conventional man. They have also succeeded in bringing selected of the bitter realities of occurrence -- as well as joys - to the plane of society's consciousness like never before.