Action Items for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Health awareness campaigns and diagnosis rates: evidence from National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Awareness campaigns are often used to encourage medical screening that allows for early detection of health problems, but much remains unknown about the effectiveness of these programs. This paper evaluates whether National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) has led to increased diagnosis of breast cancer. The analysis examines the number of diagnoses made in November (1 month after NBCAM) d...

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Announcement: Childhood Cancer Awareness Month — September 2017

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

March, 2013: Each year nearly 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed and 51,000 Americans die of the disease, making it the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths and the third most common cancer among both men and women. But many of these deaths are largely preventable through patient education and routine screening, says Olga Falkowski, M.D., a board-certified pathologist...