One Step at a Time
Making Strides of Greater Cincinnati
Saturday, Oct. 23, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Yeatman’s Cove, 705 E Pete Rose Way
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In October, brands from Kitchenaid to the NFL “think pink” in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month. While we are all familiar with the pink ribbon, it wasn’t widely used as a breast cancer support symbol until 1993, when it was adopted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Over the past three decades, funding to increase and improve research has increased dramatically, with breast cancer research now receiving the most funding of any cancer.
One way to directly join the fight against breast cancer is by taking part in the Making Strides of Greater Cincinnati breast cancer walk. You can still sign up or volunteer for this noncompetitive, family-friendly 3-mile walk next Saturday.
Mercy Mobile Mammography Screening
www.mercy.com/news-events
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m.
Price Hill Health Clinic, 2136 W. Eighth St.
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m.
Anderson Kroger, 7580 Beechmont Ave.
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 9 a.m.
Bobbie Sterne Health Center, 1525 Elm St.
Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, 8 a.m.
Evendale Walgreens, 3105 Glendale Milford Road
Fri, Oct. 22, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Everybody Fitness West Chester, 7060 Ridgetop Drive
Saturday, Oct. 23, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Silver Springhouse, 8322 E. Kemper Road
Monday, Oct. 25, 8:30 am
Dillard's, 6290 Glenway Ave.
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, 8:00 am
Rookwood Commons, 2367 Edmondson Road
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Mercy Health — Rookwood Medical Center
4101 Edwards Road
TriHealth Women’s Services Van
www.trihealth.com/womens-services-van/calendar
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 9 a.m .– 2 p.m.
Blue Ash Internal Medicine, 4260 Glendale-Milford Road
Thursday, Oct. 21, 1 – 5 p.m.
City of Cincinnati-CFD, Station 9 (District 4)
4379 Reading Road
Friday, Oct. 22, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Walgreens-Colerain, 9775 Colerain Ave.
Friday, Oct. 29, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Walgreens-Norwood, 4605 Montgomery Road
UC Health Mobile Diagnostics
www.uchealth.com/pink/events
Monday, Oct. 25, 8 – 9:30 a.m.
UC Health Primary Care (Mason), 9313 Mason Montgomery Road
Monday, Oct. 25, 11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
UC Health Primary Care (Wyoming), 175 W Galbraith Road
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 8 – 11 a.m.
Price Hill Medical Center, 2136 W. Eighth St.
Thursday, Oct. 28, 8 – 11 a.m.
UC Health Physicians Office (Florence), 68 Cavalier Blvd.
Though the overall numbers about breast cancer are scary, research and early detection have led to a decrease in the death rate from 2013 to 2018.
Early detection is critical – women whose breast cancer is found in an early stage have a 93 percent or higher survival rate in the first five years. Below is a list of mobile mammography locations the rest of October.
1 in 8 U.S. women (about 13%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
The most significant risk factors for breast cancer are sex (being a woman) and age (growing older).
In 2021, an estimated 281,550 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 49,290 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
About 2,650 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in men in 2021. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 833.
About 43,600 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2021 from breast cancer.
Death rates have been steady in women under 50 since 2007, but have continued to drop in women over 50. The overall death rate from breast cancer decreased by 1% per year from 2013 to 2018. These decreases are thought to be the result of treatment advances and earlier detection through screening.
Breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. began decreasing in the year 2000, after increasing for the previous two decades. They dropped by 7% from 2002 to 2003 alone. One theory is that this decrease was partially due to the reduced use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by women after the results of a large study called the Women’s Health Initiative were published in 2002. These results suggested a connection between HRT and increased breast cancer risk. In recent years, incidence rates have increased slightly by 0.5% per year.
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.
Breast cancer became the most common cancer globally as of 2021, accounting for 12% of all new annual cancer cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
In women under 45, breast cancer is more common in Black women than white women. Overall, Black women are more likely to die of breast cancer. For Asian, Hispanic, and Native-American women, the risk of developing and dying from breast cancer is lower. Ashkenazi Jewish women have a higher risk of breast cancer because of a higher rate of BRCA mutations.
A woman’s risk of breast cancer nearly doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Less than 15% of women who get breast cancer have a family member diagnosed with it.
– breastcancer.org