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Maine Points: Real Men Wear Pink

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Maine Points: Real Men Wear Pink

Real Mean Wear Pink is under way. Real Men Wear Pink Ambassadors commit to raising at least $2,500 for the American Cancer Society, and to help raise awareness they wear pink every day in October.

• The American Cancer Society estimates that this year in Maine more than 1,430 women and men will be newly diagnosed with breast cancer and 190 will die from the disease.
• For the first time ever, female breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. (Global Cancer Statistics 2020)
• While the death rate from breast cancer dropped by 41% from 1989 to 2018 (as a result of earlier detection through increased awareness and mammography screening, as well as advances in treatments), Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than White women overall and are twice as likely to die if they are younger than age 50.1.

Please donate here:
www.RealMenWearPinkACS.org/Maine

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