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Every 12 minutes a woman in America dies of breast cancer. This year more than 211,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 die. One in seven women either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In addition, 1,600 MEN will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 400 will die this year. If detected early, the 5 year survival rate exceeds 95%, yet 13 million U.S. women 40+ years old have never had a mammogram.
The Pink Project is a collaborative effort of myself and the BPRC. I do this for all those who we lost to breast cancer, all those who are fighting breast cancer, and all those who will be diagnosed with it. This is for the sisters, mothers, daughters, friends, and anyone this disease will effect.
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