Breast Cancer Awareness Month

• Breast cancer screening vehicle plans underway after $1 million donation

  $1 million from the Kinsmen Foundation will go to a breast cancer screening vehicle, replacing the Cancer Foundation's current bus.

  Canada

  Oct 17, 2023
  
• Shady, dishonest cancer scams can dupe patients and well-meaning donors

  Cancer "treatment" scams and dubious marketing techniques can target both patients and those who want to help find a cure.

  Commentary

  Oct 31, 2022
  
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• Pink engine doing more than helping fight fires in Saskatoon

  Saskatoon Fire Department Engine 13 has a pink wrap for all of October for breast cancer awareness month.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2021
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• Surrey hospital to perform first surgery of its kind in B.C. to help prevent lymphedema

  A Surrey, B.C. hospital will become the first in the province to perform a kind of microsurgery that, at present, is only a available at a handful of medical centres in the world.

  Health

  Oct 4, 2021
• ‘Outdated’ breast cancer screening guidelines failing Canadian women: report

  Each province has its own set of guidelines and not all let women book their own mammograms in their 40s, when the risk of breast cancer increases, experts say.  

  Health

  Oct 3, 2021
• Nova Scotia first province to include breast density results in all mammograms

  The Nova Scotia health department is encouraging any women who have had a screening done in the last two years to contact their primary health care provide and ask for their breast density information.

  Health

  Oct 29, 2019
• Winnipeg restaurant goes pink for 2 years, raising breast cancer awareness

  One Winnipeg restaurant is going above and beyond to raise awareness for breast cancer far beyond the month of October.

  Health

  Oct 7, 2019
• Knitted Knockers offer alternative for mastectomy patients in Calgary

  Since 2015, Knitted Knockers has provided over 5,000 of its hand-knitted breast prostheses to women across the prairies who've undergone a mastectomy.

  Health

  Oct 2, 2019
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• Physiotherapist helps breast cancer survivors get their bodies back

  The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation states one in four cases of cancer in Canadian women is breast cancer and one in 30 women in Canada will die from the disease.

  Health

  Oct 16, 2015
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• Yard-full of pink pumpkins “reignited the fight” for cancer fighter

  "There are strangers delivering pumpkins, it's been really incredible," Deanna said.

  Oct 7, 2015