Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), also known as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) in United States. It is an international health campaign which is organized in every October by major breast cancer charities to increase Breast Cancer Awareness and to raise funds for its cause, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The Pakistani branch of Leisure Leagues organized the Women Football’s Pink Cup 2020 with eight women teams in Karachi. This match was won by Diya W.F.C.
In Pakistan, many of the organizations, hospitals and even group of people come out every year to spread Breast Cancer Awareness i.e. Agha Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Rotary Clubs etc.
Pakistani actresses play a major role in the campaigns which are against Breast Cancer; as people follow them a lot so this is something really kind they do for the people.
Pink Ribbon Pakistan is a non-funded organization in Pakistan which is dedicatedly working on the issue of breast cancer since 2004. For providing relief to poor people, they are setting up a dedicated Breast Cancer Hospital where deserving patients will get free of cost treatment under one roof.
United States organized the National Football League to promote breast cancer awareness by incorporating pink on and off the field, and comic strip artists use pink on any one day in October.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) was founded in 1985 in October in a partnership between the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of Imperial Chemical Industries. Their goal was to promote mammography as the most effective weapon in the fight against breast cancer.
In 1993, Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estée Lauder Companies Evelyn Lauder founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and established the pink ribbon as its symbol.
Mostly, a pink ribbon is used as a symbol of breast cancer.
In the fall of 1991, the Susan G. Komen Foundation had handed out pink ribbons to participants in its New York City race for survivors of breast cancer.
In 2010, Delta Airlines painted N845MH with special colors in “Breast Cancer Research Foundation”.
