National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

So it's October 1, which means it's the start of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While I am a big advocate for healthy boobs, this month hits close to home. In summer/fall of 2001, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was pretty extreme and it was a hard time for my entire family. Luckily she had(and still does) a rockin' oncologist and the drive to overcome this horrible disease and won. She is awesome, she is my mom :)

So with that said, I would like to honor this month of boobage by having some fact about breast cancer, breast health and whatever other topics fall under this category.

So look for an update each day (and maybe one for the weekends) and learn something!

So let's start off with a stat:

"An estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2008"- Susan G. Komen website