How You Can Help Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month

For ONE thing even as you're reading this, it's not too late to get in on Lee National Denim Day. Jump up! Put those denim jeans on and pledge $5.

It goes to a very good cause..the cause of fighting breast cancer. Actress Christina Applegate is front and center on National Denim Day. The fight is personal for her. Just last year she was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.

Breast cancer will take 40,000 more American lives this year. The search for a cure can't wait for a recession to end or a health care bill to pass. But there are ways all of us can help. Big corporations are offering to team up with us to do their part.

Oreck is selling a pink and black, Clean for the Cure bagged vacuum. Buy one of these; it's designed to rid your home of allergens and even the tiniest bits of bacteria and dust, and Oreck will pledge $25 to the Komen foundation to fight cancer.

Energizer Batteries is getting involved. Buy batteries and get a free "keep going" journal. The journals are full of inspirational quotes, it comes with a pink-ribbon bookmark and a calender. Get several and give it as a gift. It's the gift that keeps on giving. No pun intended. Oh yeah, they'll also send in another dollar for every new fan on the Energizer Bunny's FaceBook page.

One place donations are making a difference is on the mammography front.
There is new breast screening technology. A Techni-Scan is a long-awaited alternative to painful mammograms. It's still undergoing clinical trials but the hope is it will get FDA approval within the next few months.
Instead of radiation it uses harmless ultra sound. The powerful graphics processing unit or GPU originally created for high-end video games, provide more detailed images and faster processing.

Much to be hopeful for going forward.

For more information check out:
www.denimday.com
www.cleanforthecure.com
www.energizer.com/