October is the month when you can do something to raise awareness of breast cancer by turning your site pink. Pink for October has been running now for several years and it’s that time of the year again. Since the start this site has gone pink and I’d encourage others to join in and colour the web pink.
In the United States, there were 216,000 cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,000 deaths in 2004. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer after lung cancer (10.4% of all cancer incidence, both sexes counted) and the fifth most common cause of cancer death. In 2004, breast cancer caused 519,000 deaths worldwide (7% of cancer deaths; almost 1% of all deaths). – Wikipedia
Turning your site pink does what?
By going pink you raise awareness and open talking points around breast cancer. It’s something that should be at the forefront of people’s minds and by going pink during October awareness is raised along with through various methods of donating on Pink for October some funds to research methods of combating. I also encourage you to check out Boobiethon as another way you can donate and participate.
So what are you waiting for? Tis the season to go pink.
