Click to help save a life

Got this link from Melbie to help women in need to receive free cancer detection. This issue is close to my heart as a family member of mine underwent a mastectomy (the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts) due to breast cancer many years ago. She's doing fine now but has to go for annual check up in Singapore. Many women may not be as fortunate so this post is to raise awareness on how you and I can help.

The National Breast Cancer Foundation, USA estimates that each year, over 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and over 40,000 die. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Approximately 1,700 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 450 will die each year.

If detected early, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer exceeds 96%. Mammograms are among the best early detection methods, yet 13 million U.S. women 40 years of age or older have never had a mammogram.

Among the Free Ways to Help

At The Breast Cancer Site, there are many free ways you can help women in need receive the gift of early breast cancer detection.
Click here every day.

Did you know you can click once a day, every day at The Breast Cancer Site? That's 365 chances each year to help a woman in need get the gift of early detection!

Send a free e-card.
Use the free e-cards to tell everyone you know — friends, family, colleagues — about The Breast Cancer Site. The more people who click every day, the more mammograms are funded for women in need.

Sign up for the free e-newsletter.

The Breast Cancer Site's e-newsletter keeps you in the know about ways to help provide more mammograms to women in need. Plus, if you are a brand new registrant at the GreaterGood Network (owners and operators of The Breast Cancer Site), they will give additional funding toward free mammograms for women in need.

Visit the National Breast Cancer Foundation website.

Visit www.nationalbreastcancer.org for more information about breast cancer and National Breast Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization whose mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need, particularly minority, low-income, homeless, and working poor women.

Updated 1/7/2008:
Thanks to everyone who had clicked on the link to help provide free mammograms to women who need them. We did it. Our clicks were among the 8 million needed to help. U all rock!