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Breast Cancer Awareness
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH-- This is not only a tag to play with but this is also an important and useful tag. Let's help spread the word on the "Breast Cancer Awareness" • The first sign of breast cancer usually shows up on a woman's mammogram before it can be felt or any other symptoms are present. • Risks for breast cancer include a family history, atypical hyperplasia, delaying pregnancy until after age 30 or never becoming pregnant, early menstruation (before age 12), late menopause (after age [...]
The Environment and Breast Cancer Linked
Between 1973 and 1998, the rate of incidents of breast cancer in the USA increased by more than 40 percent. Today, women have a one in eight chance of having breast cancer. State of the Evidence 2008 is a comprehensive report on the link between the environment and increased breast cancer risk. Right-click and save link as to download PDF State of the Evidence 2008 Please pass this information on. Tags: breast cancer , environment [...]
Click to Give FREE Mammograms
Reysy forwarded an email to me regarding The Breast Cancer Site.At The Breast Cancer Site, there are many free ways you can help women in need receive the gift of early breast cancer detection.Your click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button helps fund free mammograms for women in need ? low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Your click is paid for by site sponsors, and mammogram funding is provided to clinics throughout [...]
Five Lessons I Didn't Learn From Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did)
By Shelley Lewis New American Library I’ve never had to battle cancer, but I’ve had many family members - including my mother right now - diagnosed with other forms of cancer. It’s difficult to find a light side to cancer when you’re fighting for your life. Shelley Lewis, however, writes about her experience with humor and advice for a world that has marketed breast cancer. One thing that sets Lewis’ book apart is that she makes a point to say that breast cancer didn’t change her or give her a [...]
Not My Breasts!
Only 1 out of 10 women who have breast cancer have a genetic history of the disease. Scientists increasingly believe as many as half of all breast cancer cases have environmental links. The Breast... Please visit Losing Propositioin blog to comment and make fun of my progress! LOL
Dine out for a Cure: Brooklyn Breast Cancer Benefit
2nd Annual Brooklyn “Dining Out for a Cure” For the month of June, dine out at participating restaurants on a specified date and a percentage of your bill will be donated to the Avon Foundation’s Breast Cancer Crusade – The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Not only is this a worthwhile cause, but the restaurant line-up [...]
Bali Donates $100,000 to Breast Cancer Research Foundation
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. — To celebrate the launch of its new Bali Concealers bras, Bali is making a $100,000 donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). BCRF works to prevent breast cancer by funding the most innovative clinical and genetic research worldwide. At least 85 cents of every dollar donated goes directly toward breast cancer research and awareness programs. Since 1993, BCRF [...]
What Causes Brain Cancer?
There is no known cause of brain cancer. Extensive research has been conducted to pinpoint a cause to help prevent the cancer from occurring. Although there has not been very much conclusive evidence leading to a cause of brain cancer, the one thing that doctors do know is that brain cancer is not contagious and it does not occur due to head injury. There are known instances where cancer has spread to the brain from other parts of the body.(Lung cancer,Breast cancer,Liver cancer and so on.) Brain cancer can [...]
Pink Ribbon Day
Internationally October is recognised as Breast Cancer Month; individuals, communities, organisations and corporations around the globe all come to together in a common purpose, to raise awareness of breast cancer and to raise funds for research. Monday 22nd October is Pink Ribbon Day (signature day of the National Breast Cancer Foundation ) here in Australia. Please be generous in your support by either by the purchase of Pink Ribbon merchandise, a donation of money or time volunteering. [...]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, reminding women of the importance of self-examination. In India, one in 38 urban women and one in 98 rural women face the risk of developing the disease, according to the National Cancer Registry Programme. Knowing how your breasts normally look and feel enables you to notice differences more quickly. Most changes are benign, but early detection can make [...]