Surgi-Shorts pledges continued support for NBCAM Organization
Surgi-Shorts is proud to pledge continued support for the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month organization. Providing continued support to the awareness of Breast Cancer and the importance of early detection is a long term commitment for the Surgi-Shorts team.The statistics are staggering:
Awareness and early detection are key components in not becoming a statistic. Learn more about breast cancer and activities taking place visiting the links listed below:
- Excluding cancers of the skin, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among U.S. women, accounting for more than 1 in 4 cancers.
- Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
- One out of eight American women who live to be 85 years of age will develop breast cancer, a risk that was one out of 14 in 1960.
- 2.4 million women living in the U.S. have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer.
- An estimated 182,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in American women during 2008.
- An estimated 40,930 breast cancer deaths are anticipated this year (40,480 women, 450 men).
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM)
www.nbcam.org
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
www.komen.org
American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC)
www.stopbreastcancer.org
National Breast Cancer Foundation
www.nationalbreastcancer.org
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
www.networkofstrength.org
Living With It
www.livingwithit.org