October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Dedicated to all the beautiful women... to let them know that they are pretty -- both on the inside and the outside - and that they are loved and cared for.............

THIS POST IS TO REMIND LADIES TO BE INFORMED, AWARE AND BE CHECKED FOR THEIR HEALTH'S SAKE. TO TELL THEM THAT NO ONE WANTS TO LOSE THEM - AFTER ALL, THEY ARE PRETTY LADIES WITH KIND, WARM LOVING HEARTS.....

• Breast Cancer is the is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (after lung cancer).

• One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.


• Breast cancer is much less common in men:women are 100 times more susceptible to breast cancer than men.


• Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk.


• Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.


• Eighty percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.

• Ninety-eight percent of women who find and treat breast cancer early will be cancer-free after five years.

You are never too young to develop breast cancer! Breast Self-Exam should begin by the age of twenty.

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