On Friday, October 18, 2013, all employees throughout Cooper are encouraged to wear pink to promote breast cancer awareness.
Pink scrubs are allowed on this day only!
According to Breastcancer.org, a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing information and community to those touched by breast cancer, about one in eight U.S. women (just under 12 percent) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. For women in the U.S., breast cancer death rates are higher than those for any other cancer, besides lung cancer.
Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women. A woman’s risk of breast cancer approximately doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. About 15 percent of women who get breast cancer have a family member diagnosed with it.
About 85 percent 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.
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