October 2005
October is breast cancer awareness month. Did you also know it’s Innovation in Eye Care Month, Car Safety Month, and Brain Tumor Awareness Month? Did you know that in the coming months we can celebrate Amaryllis Month, Dental Health Month and Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month?
While I appreciate the attention that having a specific month identified as “ours” brings to the disease, we all know that every month is breast cancer awareness month. It just means we’ll be a little bit busier in October.
Over half of the days of this month are taken up with PBCC walks, press events, exhibit openings, art shows, dinners, interviews, health fairs and other fundraisers across the state. Surely there is something in your neighborhood to remind you that it is breast cancer awareness month. I would love to hear what it is.
If you haven’t already registered for our Keystone Breast Cancer Conference, you’re missing out on a wonderful day and an opportunity to hear first-rate medical professionals, witness personal stories of survival, experience more vendors and exhibitors than have ever been on display at this event, and get a much needed “shot in the arm”, as one volunteer described it last year. At only $65, it is truly a bargain among educational conferences. I hope to see you there on October 19. Click here to register today.
How will you recognize breast cancer awareness month? Maybe you attend one of our events. Maybe you wear pink more often than you normally would. Or maybe you call for that mammogram you’ve been meaning to get. Whatever you choose to do, let this noteworthy month be your reason for doing it.
Heather Hibshman
Executive Director
