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Website. bcaction .org. Breast Cancer Action ( BCAction) is a U.S.-based grassroots education and activist organization driven by and supporting people living with breast cancer. It was founded in 1990 by Elenore Pred, Susan Claymon, Belle Shayer, and Linda Reyes. Based in San Francisco, BCAction is known for understanding breast cancer not as ...
The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is Komen's main fundraising event and the world's largest funding event for breast cancer. [ 26] It consists of a series of 5K runs and fitness walks to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. The first race was run in Dallas, Texas in 1983, with 800 participants. [ 27]
National Breast Cancer Foundation (United States) The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) is a U.S. breast cancer organization [1] [2] that promotes breast cancer awareness and education, provides free screening services, and supports breast cancer patients and survivors. [3]
July 31, 2024 at 6:35 PM. Gen X and Millennials in the U.S. are at greater risk for 17 cancers than were previous generations, a major new study revealed. Researchers at the American Cancer ...
July 24, 2024 at 9:23 PM. After Kate Rackham learned she had breast cancer at 38 years old, she began volunteering with cancer charities to raise awareness for breast cancer in young people. She ...
We're more than 30 years apart, as she's 72 and I'm 38, we come from different parts of the country, and we have different religious beliefs and racial backgrounds. But we also have a lot in ...
Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. [ 7] Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a red or scaly patch of skin. [ 1] In those with distant spread of the disease, there may be bone pain ...
Diagnosis dates are listed where the information is known. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. According to the United States National Cancer Institute, the rate of new cases of female breast cancer was 129.1 per 100,000 women per year. The death rate was 19.9 per 100,000 women per year.