If you hadn’t noticed all the pink products on the shelf and if you didn’t already know, October is The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Celebrating it’s 25th year, The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Organization continues its mission “to promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease, and provide greater access to screening services.”
This is a good time to remember to schedule your annual mammogram especially if you’re a woman over 40 just like me. If you have a high risk for breast cancer, as in having immediate family who have been diagnosed with it, it is recommended that you be start screening earlier. While the prognosis has gotten better, it’s no longer a death sentence to have breast cancer, there are still thousands of women who die every year from this disease. Through education and awareness maybe the number of deaths will keep going down and the number of survivals will keep going up.
One of the pink products you may have seen on the shelves is Orbit Gum. I received some sample Bubblemint Orbit Big-E-Paks featuring the Bright Pink packaging as well the Bright Pink “Little Bright Book,” a guide to breast and ovarian cancer risk and how to be proactive with your health, via The Buzz Cooperative and Dig Communication. They are spreading the word that Orbit White gum has partnered with the charity Bright Pink during September and October to support Breast Cancer Awareness month. Bright Pink is a national nonprofit with an exclusive focus on breast and ovarian cancer prevention and early detection in high risk young women. Ten percent of the sales generated by the purchase of each Bubblemint Orbit White gum pack during September and October will be donated to support Bright Pink’s mission to help women proactively take control of their health via education, support and community development for those at risk. You can check out this cause at BeBrightPink.org.
So while you’re out and about doing your daily errands and shopping, keep an eye out for the pink products. It is the support from companies and all the support from concerned people like you and me that has enabled the research and ground breaking treatments for breast cancer to develop. Until there is not one woman dying from breast cancer, the fight will not be over so keep up the good fight!
If you’re a blogger, you can help by joining the Blogs Against Breast Cancer 2009 campaign. All you have to do is display the badge on your blog and Diets in Review will donate $5 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation in honor of your site. Click here to join Blogs Against Breast Cancer.
Here’s a few things you can do starting this month if you haven’t already:
- Perform breast self exams regularly and get a mammogram.
From Diets in Review:
Start taking steps to prevent breast cancer in yourself by incorporating positive nutrition and fitness practices in your life:
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Thank you for such a timely post. My mother was just diagnosed with cancer, probably breast cancer. I will be doing everything I can (when I’m able) to help fight this disease.
Thanks for posting this, I think er have all had someone close to us affected y breast cancer, for me it was my great grandmother. Great blog you have too, I love all the giveaway links!
Oh … what are the facts, thanks a lot for sharing this with all
I’m probably going to wait until I’m 40 to start getting mammograms because a) breast cancer doesn’t run in my family, b) I don’t want to be exposed to all that radiation when they probably can’t really even see much anyway, and c) I keep up with my BSEs and I figure if there was anything there, I’d probably know since my boobs are pretty tiny, haha.