Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness of breast cancer and reduce the disease's stigma by educating people about its symptoms and treatment options. Supporters hope that greater knowledge will lead to earlier detection of breast cancer, which is associated with higher long-term survival rates, and that money raised for breast cancer will produce a reliable, permanent cure.

Breast cancer advocacy and awareness efforts are a type of health advocacy. Breast cancer advocates raise funds and lobby for better care, more knowledge, and more patient empowerment. They may conduct educational campaigns or provide free or low-cost services. Breast cancer culture, sometimes called pink ribbon culture, is the cultural outgrowth of breast cancer advocacy, the social movement that supports it, and the larger women's health movement.

The pink ribbon is the most prominent symbol of breast cancer awareness, and in most countries, the month of October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As "the darling of corporate America", national breast cancer organizations receive substantial financial support from corporate sponsorships (King 2006, page 2).

OUR MISSION

To Eradicate Breast Cancer as a Life - Threatening Disease

OUR OBJECTIVES

To advocate for more constructive and co-ordinated action to increase awareness of the public to the incidence of breast cancer

To increase awareness of breast cancer at all levels of society family members, employers, employees, the general public and the medical professional community

To emphasise the importance of early detection through regular breast cancer screening

To identify and help implement opportunities to provide easier access to regular breast cancer screening and at affordable rates

To provide support to breast cancer patients/survivors and their families

To work closely with various breast cancer-related support groups and organisations in order to complement and optimise efforts to eradicate breast...