Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast cancer is one of the most cause of death in women after cervical cancer. This cancer is actually a close problem to every single woman, but so hard to be talked between women. Every woman has the same chance to have breast cancer, even us. According to World Health Organization (WHO), there are 7 millions breast cancer cases and 5 millions of them are died.

Breast Cancer Awareness
Low level of people's awareness cause higher evidence of breast cancer with high stadium, especially on developing countries. Most patients are diagnosed in advanced stage where complications are more likely to be happened. This is much different with people on developed countries, like United States and Europe where breast cancer patients are founded in early stadium. So we can conclude that breast cancer awareness and early detection are very important concepts.

In October, especially in United States,  they commemorate it as a month of  breast cancer awareness (National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, or NBCAM). In this month, there will be a lot of programs to campaign about breast cancer awareness.
NCBAM is first founded at 1985, as a form of cooperation between American Cancer Society and Imperial Chemical Industries (now has become part of AstraZeneca, one of the great chemotherapy drug factories). NCBAM's goal initially was to promote mammography as the most effective gun to against breast cancer.

In 1993, Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estee Lauder Companies established The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and made pink ribbon as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. There are so many events and activities that have been done to commemorate NBCAM, but the most exciting part is when almost one dozen of famous landmarks are lighted by pink lamps to attract people's attention of mammography screening for breast cancer diagnosis. Those landmarks are: The Harbour Bridge (Australia), Niagara Falls (Canada), Tokyo Tower (Japan), Empire State (United States), and many more.

Another exciting campaign is Pink Hijab Day. The history was when a group of female moslem high school students in Columbia, Missouri, agree to simultaneously wear pink hijab to commemorate NCBAM. Now, Pink Hijab Day has become a global movement to commemorate breast cancer awareness.

Breast Cancer Awareness : Breast Cancer Store (http://www.thebreastcancersite.com)
This online store sells stuffs and merchandises related to breast cancer awareness. They contribute the money from it for charity of breast cancer awareness. Some celebrities are also concern about breast cancer awareness. There are some singles they had just released, one of them is: "Just Stand Up" by Beyonce, Carrie Underwood, Rihanna, Sheryl Crow (studio version only); Fergie, Leona Lewis, Keyshia Cole, Miley Cyrus, LeAnn Rimes (studio version only); Natasha Bedingfield, Melissa Etheridge (studio version only); Mary J Blige, Mariah Carey, Ashanti, and Nicole Scherzinger (live version). The single was released at August 21, 2008.