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Breat Cancer Awareness Month

Hello Everyone. Since it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I've seen nothing but pink in every store, I thought it would be nice to have a thread to talk about it.

..Interesting Facts..


Every 2 minutes, there is a new breast cancer diagnosis.

Every 14 minutes, a life is lost to the disease.

Over 40,000 people will die this year; about 400 of them will be men.

85% of all diagnoses have no family history.

1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between ages 40 and 55.

Source

Each year, about 1,700 men in this country learn they have breast cancer.--- http://www.cancer.gov



Risk Factors
Risk Factors Table

Resources
Komen.org
NationalBreastCancer.org
BreastCancer.org
Cancer.gov


Prevention/Early Detection
Free Self Breast Exam Shower Card
How To: Self Breast Exam
Risk Factor Calculator


Discuss


-- Male and Female Breast Cancer
-- Breast Cancer in the family/friends/you
-- Support
-- More Sources
-- Common Breast Cancer Myths
----(Example: Abortion and Breast Cancer)
-- Why it seems like most sites cannot agree on Common Risk Factors
-- Anything Else??

It is strange to walk into a department store and see a million things in pink. o.O I always thought that part of what you pay for the pink things go towards breast cancer research and so on... If it didn't, then I'd probably be irritated too.

What is irritating to me, is that they don't do this for AIDs, Testicular cancer, and so on. (or at least I have never seen it done for these things)

I'd rather have them spread the word this way, than thousands of women getting sick and dying, because they didn't know how to spot the signs, or only thinking older women get breast cancer.