The day when most women gather in mass, Mother’s Day, was used as a statewide effort to educate about breast health and breast cancer awareness.
The day when most women gather in mass, Mother’s Day, was used as a statewide effort to educate about breast health and breast cancer awareness.
Access Community Health Network’s 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister Sunday Campaign took place in hundreds of places of worship across the state Sunday, promoting breast health, self-breast examinations and learning to live with breast cancer. Women participating in the initiative pinned each other with pink ribbons and pledged to take better care of themselves by getting annual mammograms.
A recent study by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force states that Black women are dying at a rate 116 percent higher than white women. While white women have the highest overall rate of breast cancer, Black women are more likely to die from it.
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In main photo: Deborah Graham, left, pins First Lady, Prophetess Rosemary Abercrombie at Truth and Deliverance Christian Church in observance of the 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister Sunday, a state-wide, faith-based Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.
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