Go Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education on symptoms and treatment. At SPEX CertiPrep, we support the hope that greater knowledge will lead to earlier detection of breast cancer, which is associated with higher long-term survival rates, and that money raised for breast cancer will produce a reliable, permanent cure.

Did you know?

  • About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12.4%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime
  • In 2019, an estimated 268,600 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 62,930 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer
  • For women in the U.S., breast cancer death rates are higher than those for any other cancer, besides lung cancer
  • About 85% of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of breast cancer. These occur due to genetic mutations that happen as a result of the aging process and life in general, rather than inherited mutations

Source: BreastCancer.org https://bit.ly/2NhthCS