Plant it Pink!
March 26, 2010 – 9:10 am
Saucer Magnolias will showcase pink blooms for about 2-3 weeks
The National Garden Clubs Inc., the largest non-profit community service organization in the country, has issued you an invitation this spring. Plant it Pink!
All over the country, you will begin to see large community plantings of pink in honor and dedication to all women (and men) who have been challenged by breast cancer. Although this will not foster a cure, it will do something just as important. It will send a message of love and faith to those who are affected by this modern disease.
According to the American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2009:
- 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer
- 40,170 deaths from breast cancer
Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is a little less 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Breast cancer death rates have been going down. This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and better treatment. Right now there are more than 2½ million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
