Breast+Cancer+Awareness+Month

image by tonya Valentine(free image) For over FIFTEEN years a pink ribbon is the international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Wear a pink ribbon, so that people will ask you what it's all about. Do your self exams. Early detection is the best chance for a long life. If you notice anything strange see your doctor, don't wait. Pink ribbons spread awareness and are used to raise money to fund research that will lead to a cure.This is shareware and not copyrighted.//"It is free because the power of movements begin with symbols and ideas that spread unimpeded."- Carol Sutton// **My mandate is to give away free, copyright free pink ribbon symbols, graphic, icons, images, pinkribbon visual material and the like for the use and promotion of raising awareness of breast cancer.** Toward that end many people worldwide have donated their designs and services to help in the cause. To date many people worldwide have used my free ribbons to make products that produce funds for breast cancer research and help the cause of creating more awareness of the pink ribbon symbol. The pink ribbon considered world wide to be **an international symbol for breast cancer**. **The pink ribbon is ubiquitous**, or seeming to exist everywhere at once, and be omnipresent. **No one company or organization or foundation owns the rights to this worldwide symbol.** However, individual pink ribbon designers can hold all rights reserved on their copyright, for example [|Avon] has its own, as does [|Estee Lauder].

**I am often asked the question; Is there one approved ribbon design? The answer is -NO.** Let's begin to see some pink ribbons up on the www in support of a Breast Cancer Cure. [|Susan G. Komen Official Website]
 * Make your own design and add text. Then make a page offering it to the world wide web or internet.**

Chart obtained from [|wikipedia] new data on breast cancer risk- http://body.aol.com/condition-center/breast-cancer/news/article/_a/three-drinks-a-day-ups-breast-cancer/20070927085809990002 page designer: michael pinto dedicated to my grandmom and all the other men and women who battled cancer.
 * ~ Male ||  ||||~ Female ||
 * ~ most common (by occurrence) ||~ most common (by mortality) [|[3]] ||~ most common (by occurrence) ||~ most common (by mortality) [|[3]] ||
 * [|prostate cancer] (33%) || lung cancer (31%) || [|breast cancer] (32%) || lung cancer (27%) ||
 * [|lung cancer] (13%) || prostate cancer (10%) || lung cancer (12%) || breast cancer (15%) ||
 * [|colorectal cancer] (10%) || colorectal cancer (10%) || colorectal cancer (11%) || colorectal cancer (10%) ||
 * [|bladder cancer] (7%) || [|pancreatic cancer] (5%) || [|endometrial cancer] (6%) || [|ovarian cancer] (6%) ||
 * cutaneous [|melanoma] (5%) || [|leukemia] (4%) || [|non-Hodgkin lymphoma] (4%) || pancreatic cancer (6%) ||

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