Saturday starts two important awareness months: domestic violence and breast cancer. We need to pay special attention to these issues because they impact far too many women (and men) we know and love.
While researchers have made great strides in providing cutting-edge treatments, the overall number of breast cancer diagnoses in the past 30 years has more than doubled from 641,000 to 1.64 million annually, according to a new global study.
Meanwhile, an estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. These numbers aren’t going to go away anytime soon without communities (and women) coming together to highlight the problems and solutions.
