As we live into the teachings of “Our Family Tree” sermon series, this Laity Sunday we lift up awareness of Breast Cancer. We hope you can help in our efforts to focus on the good we can do rather than being sabotaged by fear, anger or despair.
U.S. breast cancer statistics:
People of every country, race, ethnic group, and income level are affected by breast cancer. In the U.S., the percentage of women diagnosed with breast cancer has been slowly rising for the past couple of decades.
A woman in the U.S. today has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer over her lifetime and a 1 in 39 chance of dying from breast cancer.
Nearly 30% of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer later develop metastatic breast cancer.
U.S. men make up 1 of every 100 breast cancer diagnoses in the country.
There are about 4 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S., including women receiving breast cancer treatment.
While the percentage of women dying from breast cancer has gone down in recent decades, black women remain more likely to die from breast cancer than women of any other racial or ethnic group.
This information is provided by Breastcancer.org.
The Ways you can help:
Come dressed in your favorite shade of pink
Following service, we will have a Tea Time Fellowship where a representative from Pink Lemonade Project will speak. If you are able, donations to Pink Lemonade Project will be gladly accepted. https://pinklemonadeproject.org/
