Susan B Komen, every little bit counts! RE/MAX Gold Coast is making a difference

A sea of pink! Ladies it's a call to action! The Susan B Komen Race For The Cure is coming up soon and my office has created a team to raise money. Even small donations count.. so far we've raised over $700 but if we want to make a difference we're going to have to raise some more!

If you'd like to make a donation please visit this link and donate on Team Leader Karen De Jesus' page. She is our office coordinator and also the force behind all of our charity functions. She has succesfully heald rallies not just for Susan Komen but for Children's Miracle Network, the Hoboken Jubilee and Hoboken shelter programs to name a few causes!

Some quick facts about breast cancer provided by the www.breastcancer.org website.

• Breast cancer incidence in women in the United States is 1 in 8 (about 13%).
• In 2008, an estimated 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 67,770 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
• About 1,990 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2008. Less than 1% of all new breast cancer cases occur in men.
• From 2001 to 2004, breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. decreased by 3.5% per year. One theory is that this decrease was due to the reduced use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by women after the results of a large study, called the Women’s Health Initiative, were published in 2002. These results suggested a connection between HRT and increased breast cancer risk.
• About 40,480 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2008 from breast cancer, though death rates have been decreasing since 1990. These decreases are thought to be the result of treatment advances, earlier detection through screening, and increased awareness.
• 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 U.S. women. More than 1 in 4 cancers are breast cancer.

Even in tough economic times we can pull together a little to do a lot.

God bless!