Kid Friendly Resources about Breast Cancer Awareness

We invite you to join us today as kid bloggers join together to GO PINK for breast cancer support.  We’re sharing on our blogs various ways that you can help to support research for the cure.  We’re sharing simple ways we can support each other as we fight breast cancer with our friends and family members.

We participated in Small Hands Creating HOPE Project.  Mama Smiles opened up this project to benefit the American Cancer Society.  If you donate $15 you also get a free ebook full of kid friendly crafts.

Websites for Information for Talking to Kids About Breast Cancer

As we look at our children, words are sometimes hard to find to explain what’s going on when a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer and going through surgeries and treatment.

We found a few websites with resources for talking with your child about cancer.

• Breast Cancer Research and Information
• Pink Pumpkin Patch
• Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
• How to Talk to you Child about Breast Cancer
• Tools for Talking to Children about Cancer
• Helping Children Understand Cancer
• Questions about Talking with Kids About Cancer
• Kid Scope
• Books About Cancer for Kids
• Breast Cancer Awareness
• Susan G Komen Website
• Participate in a Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
• You are Not Alone Breast Cancer Support and Research

Please help end cancer by donating to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation 

Here’s a kid friendly way to support Breast Cancer Research. Here are some ideas for cards and for volunteering to support cancer patients. We decided to paint a pink pumpkin and talk about Breast Cancer with our daughter this year.  We talked about what types of words of encouragement could we give to someone.

10 Things You Should Know About Breast Cancer

• One out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer… that’s one every three minutes.
• One woman will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes… nearly 40,000 women each year.
• Monthly breast self examinations and annual clinical exams and mammograms in women 50 years and older could prevent as many as 30 percent of those deaths.
• The American Cancer Society recommends women begin annual screening mammograms at age 40. Women should begin breast self examinations as early as in their 20s.
• Breast cancer death rates have been steadily decreasing due to increased awareness of the importance of early detection and because of improved treatments. Today, there are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.
• Between 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are linked to inherited genes. Women who have inherited these genes are 80 percent more likely to develop breast cancer. If your family history includes close relatives on either your mother’s or father’s sides who have had breast cancer at an early age, you may wish to seek genetic counseling to learn if you are at higher risk for breast cancer.
• If your mother, sister or daughter have had breast cancer, your risk for it more than doubles. Genetic counseling and aggressive surveillance/treatment may be recommended by your doctor.
• More than 85 percent of women diagnosed do not have a family history of breast cancer… that’s why breast self examinations and annual exams and mammograms by your doctor are so important to early detection, treatment and survival.
• You can reduce your risk of breast cancer with simple lifestyle choices… maintain a healthy weight… exercise regularly, even if it’s just a brisk walk 20 minutes each day… eat healthy foods…. and drink alcohol in moderation.
• Tobacco use is clearly linked with many kinds of cancers and other diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. If you smoke, consider quitting.

* Adapted from American Cancer Society materials

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