- Scenes around Houston of Susan G Komen Foundation events this weekend. Part of just “31 Days of Pink Action”. (Photos: Houston Chronicle: Mayra Beltran & Smiley N. Pool)
The ever growing movement named after Susan G Komen continues to reach and raise millions. With over 38,000 participating in the Houston Race for the Cure this Saturday, and thousands more seeing the campaign further promoted Sunday during games like that of the Texans, The Susan G Komen Foundation continues to move the cause of breast cancer awareness and prevention further across our community and across the nation.
And with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, be on the lookout for more reminders of how to get involved and take action. At the heart of this years campaign is a recent study of 1.5 million women with insurance that shows fewer than 50 percent received regular mammograms. After three decades of progress in gaining public awareness and support for the breast cancer movement, Komen officials say these advances could be at risk as people become confused or complacent about mammography, budget cuts put important programs at risk and women fail, for a wide variety of reasons, to get life-saving breast screenings or mammograms.