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T-shirt Making During Breast Health Month

Current Happenings

• Pink and Black Ball a big success!
• Race for the Cure 2008
• Climb for Komen
• Breast Health Resources

If you are interested in having someone speak to your group or organization about breast health please call or come by the Women’s Outreach Center today.

Real Men Wear Pink

Breast Cancer Stats

• Having more than one drink of alcohol per day may increase your risk of breast cancer.
  
• Current or recent use of birth control pills may increase your risk of breast cancer.

• Women who do not engage in regular physical activity may have a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

• Women over 5’3” have a slightly higher risk of breast cancer than women under 5’3”.

• Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer.

• Breast cancer is the leading cancer among white and African American women.

• Breast cancer incidence in women has increased from one in 20 in 1960 to one in eight today

  
  For more information regarding breast health please visit komen.org
  
  
  
  
  We are proud to be a part of a grant program funded through the
  Central Oklahoma Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.