WPI Observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023 by supporting those diagnosed and their caregivers, honoring survivors, and raising awareness of and educating each other on this complex disease. We encourage our community to learn about and advocate for breast cancer testing and research and celebrate the survivors and caregivers in our community and beyond.
“Nearly 300,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and one in eight women in America will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetimes. We have made enormous progress in our decades-long fight against cancer—discovering new prevention and early-detection measures and exploring medicines and therapies to extend and save lives.... For the lives we can save and those we have lost, let this National Breast Cancer Awareness Month be a moment of unity that rallies the country to end cancer as we know it. Together, we can give patients, survivors, and their families the care, hope, and support they deserve.” -- A Proclamation on National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023
Read, Watch, Listen, and Learn
- Explore How to Conduct a Breast Exam on Yourself
- Learn about treatment for different breast cancer diagnoses
- Explore Let's Discuss: Breast Cancer Awareness and health equity online
- Read What to Say to a Cancer Patient eBook
- Read Know the Symptoms Guide
- Read The End of Breast Cancer: A Virus and the Hope for a Vaccine by Kathleen T. Ruddy
- Read From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement by Barbara Ley
- Attend the Rascals Goes Pink Fundraiser on Friday, October 20
- Watch Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
- Watch Fighting cancer with dance
- Watch Five
- Listen to the Investigating Breast Cancer Podcast
- Listen to The Cancer GamePlan Podcast
- Listen to the Breast Cancer Update Podcast
Take Action
- Join WPI's American Cancer Society On Campus
- Take the Mammogram Pledge and share with others
- Become an Advocate in Science
- Support the Susan G. Komen Organization
- Register to Vote -OR- Check Your Voter Registration
- Request your absentee ballot. Vote.org
- Become a Poll Worker
Breast Cancer Awareness Month began in 1985 as a partnership between the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of Imperial Chemical Industries. Betty Ford helped kick off the week-long event, as she was herself a survivor of breast cancer. She was diagnosed when her husband, Gerald Ford, was president of the United States and brought even more attention to breast cancer. The early goal of Breast Cancer Awareness Month was to educate women about breast cancer and early detection tests so that they could take charge of their breast health. One of their key goals that they wanted to achieve was to promote mammograms as an important tool to be used in the fight against breast cancer.
Learn more at: https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-awareness-month/