October is breast cancer awareness month!

During October various organisations are raising awareness of this disease and raising funds to research into it and FunkeeMunkee
didn’t want you to miss out!

One in nine women will develop breast cancer at some time in their lives and each year about 300 men are diagnosed with the disease.

The good news is that more people than ever before are surviving breast cancer particularly if they find it in their bodies in the early stages of the disease. The treatments people are given are always improving too.

In Bedford...

Bedford Borough Council have decided that for the entire month
of October they are lighting up the bridge in the town centre pink (instead of it’s usual blue) to make people think about breast cancer awareness.

Do your parents drink wine?

This may sound like we’re completely changing the subject but how much someone drinks can influence their chances of developing breast cancer. So, alcohol services for the community has created a special limited edition of the free fridge magnet (pictured) showing the units of alcohol in wine.

But don’t worry – if one or both your parents drink alcohol that doesn’t mean they’re definitely going to develop breast cancer.

Just e-mail through to us here and we’ll pop a fridge magnet in the post to you (one per household).

So, think pink this month
and get raising awareness and maybe funds, too.

A massive thank you to Cancer Research UK for
helping us with this article and letting us use their images.