Website Sponsors MPH Get Into Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness Month
With Breast Cancer Awareness month coming to a close, October has seen thousands of people across the country holding fund raising and breast cancer awareness events such as coffee mornings, dress in pink days; and fun runs.
Unionsafety website sponsors MPH Solitors last Friday (26th October), got involved in a dress in pink day, which included male staff members too.
Colleagues and Directors alike were busy all week preparing outfits and cakes for their event. Apart from supporting their female colleagues in Breast Cancer Awareness month, they are also aware that men too, can get breast cancer.
In Spetember, MPH hosted a coffee morning with a large selection of cakes and handmade chocolates which helped to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support charity.
MacMillan Cancer Support helps not only those who suffer from cancer, but their families too. MacMillan is able to offer financial help, expert information, advice and support free of charge.
MPH are committed to helping MacMillan to continue with their wonderful work.
As well as providing a platform for breast cancer charities to raise awareness of their work and of the disease, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is also a prime opportunity to remind women to be breast aware for earlier detection.
The Breast Cancer Care website contains important information about the disease:
The facts
- The number of people being diagnosed with breast cancer is increasing, but the good news is survival rates are improving. This is probably because of more targeted treatments, earlier detection and better breast awareness.
- The biggest risk factor, after gender, is increasing age – 80% of breast cancers occur in women over the age of 50.
- Breast cancer also affects men, but it’s rare – around 300 men are diagnosed each year.
- Breast cancer is not one single disease there are several types of breast cancer.
- Not all breast cancers show as a lump, and not all breast lumps are breast cancer.
- Less than 10% of breast cancer runs in families, so having someone in your family with breast cancer doesn’t necessarily mean your own risk is increased.
The stats
- Around 50,000 new cases of invasive and non-invasive (DCIS)* breast cancer are diagnosed each year in the UK. This October around 4,000 people will receive the devastating news they have breast cancer.
- Nearly 12,000 people die from breast cancer in the UK every year.**
- Breast cancer is the second biggest cause of death from cancer for women in the UK, after lung cancer.
- There are an estimated 550,000 people living in the UK today who have had a diagnosis of breast cancer.**
- In women under the age of 35, breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer.
* Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is an early form of breast cancer, sometimes described as anintra-ductal or non-invasive cancer. ** This refers to invasive breast cancer. Statistics correct at time of publication.
For further info on Breast Cancer, search the E-Library Database using the search words 'breast cancer', or check out the following websites:
Source: MPH / Breast Cancer Care / Unionsafety