THINK PINK: OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
As many of you know, finding a cure for breast cancer is a cause that is extremely important to Tiny and Tasty. Therefore, this year we will donate 10% of the proceeds from Monsters! Monsters! Monsters and 100% of the proceeds from October’s Catch of the Weeks to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Here are some sobering statistics from the American Cancer Society:
“Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers. The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is a little less than 1 in 8 (12%).
The American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States are for 2009:
- about 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women
- about 62,280 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).
- about 40,170 women will die from breast cancer
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, exceeded only by lung cancer. The chance that breast cancer will be responsible for a woman’s death is about 1 in 35 (about 3%). At this time there are over 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.”
For more information, please check out: Susan G. Komen for the Cure and The American Cancer Society.
CATCH OF THE WEEK: Coffee ‘n’ Cream, made with Major Dickinson’s from our friends at Peet’s, is back!
