Safe & Sound breast cancer awareness campaign from Oct.1
The West Central Georgia Cancer Coalition seeks to partner with local faith-based organizations to educate their congregations and the community on breast cancer, breast health and the importance of early detection while raising awareness about the disease. Events will target black and minority ethnic groups and older women, aged over 45, with locations spanning high streets and mosques.
“Saying that a different way”, said Vaux’s mastectomy surgeon, Dr. Mark Bouton, “a man’s lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is probably about 1 in 1,000, so it’s a very rare cancer for men”.
“He told me they needed to do further tests but that he was 95 per cent sure my breast cancer was back”. The day’s highlights include meditation, nutrition information, survivor insight, an expert panel to discuss breast cancer myths and how technology can promote healing.
He was one of the politicians who posed with the famous football trophy at the Houses of Parliament as part of an FA-backed health campaign in partnership with charity Breast Cancer Care.
And on Thursday the company plans a Cars for the Cure Parade where teams will create vehicles out of cardboard decorated with a Breast Cancer Awareness theme. “I go to lots of exercise classes and have even taken part in charity walks and runs – including three marathons”. I feel angry, empty and lonely. But she soon found herself on the other side of the chair.
Consultant oncologist Prof Bryan Hennessy stressed that the drug may yet have a hugely positive impact on a quarter of all breast cancers, calling it a “massive step forward [THAT]will help save many more lives”.
The name of this year’s ten-city tour is titled “Passport to Survivorship-Informing to Empower”.
And in a bid to encourage the masses to get their walking shoes on, organiser of the campaign, Burjuman, has pledged to donate a further Dh100,000 to the cause if a total distance walked through the app reaches 50,000km by year end.
Data gathered from more than 10 million patients around the world shows that inviting women for regular mammograms really does save lives. The Prostics have endowed The Elizabeth Prostic Memorial Outreach Program in memory of their daughter, Elizabeth, who died from a BRCA-related breast cancer.