Breast cancer awareness across South Kesteven has moved up a gear with the launch of an unmissable pink refuse lorry.
The South Kesteven District Council vehicle has taken cancer charities’ call to ‘Wear It Pink’ to another level, with prominent health check adverts on each side.
The lorry launch underlines the health messages in October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and national ’Wear It Pink Day’.
Some of the facts and figures:
• One in seven women in the UK will develop breast cancer in their lifetime
• Around 55,000 women and 370 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the UK
• 80% of breast cancers occur in women over the age of 50. Just over 10,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 50 every year in the UK. Of these, around 7,600 women will be in their 40s and around 2,300 (4%) are diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 39.
• Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women in the UK, with one woman diagnosed every 10 minutes
• Almost nine in ten (85%) of women survive breast cancer for five years or more
• Breast cancer survival is improving and has doubled in the last 40 years
30 янв 2023
