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A Race team is a great way to build morale, support a friend, remember a loved one and maximize your impact in the fight against breast cancer. Teams can be any type or size: • Healthcare Teams • Community Organization • And more!

There is no additional cost to form or join a Race team.

Team members do not have to participate in the same event.

Become a team captain. Learn how easy it is at www.komenpugetsound.org.

Register Online Now through June 1 and Save! Register at: Komenpugetsound.org.

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cancer touches nearly everyone’s life, including my own. That is why I am so “Breast proud to support Komen Puget Sound’s Race for the Cure as the 2012 Grand Marshall.

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Por La Mujer Hispana

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Hispanic/Latina women.

In addition, the five year overall survival rate is lower for Hispanic women than other women.

To address the growing breast health needs of Latina women in our community, Komen Puget Sound has launched an outreach and education program titled “La Mujer Hispana”. This outreach and education effort is one of only six in the United States funded by the Yoplait Save Lids to Save Lives® program. It brings key Hispanic stakeholders together to raise awareness of breast health and the need for early detection of breast cancer among Hispanic women.

Join me and the La Mujer Hispana Race for the Cure team! For more information, email Silvia Kennedy at silvia@pskomen.org.

Servando Currasco Seattle Sounder Team Captain, Por La Mujer Hispana

Donate. Support a Race Participant.

Even if you can’t walk or run, you can lend your support. Make a general donation or give to a participant or team. Simply go online to www.komenpugetsound.org to make a donation.

Why it’s important: Reasons to race Thanks to people like you, last year, the Komen Puget Sound Affiliate was able to fund $2 million to local organizations and agencies in Western Washington for breast cancer education, screening, treatment support and research this year.

We need to do more. And we need your help!

This past year, funds raised at the Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure: ■ Reached 42,000 community members with breast cancer outreach and education programs ■ Provided 13,300 women with lifesaving breast cancer screenings and detected over 200 breast cancers ■ Ensured 825 patients undergoing breast cancer treatment could also pay for their food, shelter and utilities ■ Partnered 256 individuals with patient navigators to guide them through the complex medical system, ensuring access to quality care

Raising $150 could fund a lifesaving mammogram through our community grants program.

Fundraise for the cure.

Getting started is easy!

Today, due to a lack of funding, roughly 1,000 low-income women in our community are on a waitlist for a lifesaving mammogram.

Your Race for the Cure fundraising will help move these women off the list and on to a cure.

Once you sign up for the Race, you’ll get a customizable fundraising webpage to collect donations online. You will also have access to email templates to help you solicit donations. We will provide you with lots of fundraising tips and you can even “Fundraise on Facebook.”

Make your fundraising efforts go even further. Ask your donors if their companies have an employee matching gifts program. It doubles the amount you raise. Check our website for details and matching gift guidelines.

Win prizes and rewards!

Start earning prizes when you raise just $250. The more you raise, the greater the reward.

Raise $500 to be a Gold Club Member.

Receive special recognition online and at the event.

Be a Top 100 Fundraiser! VIP status includes a t-shirt, bib number that reflects your rank plus other Race Day perks.

All donations received by July 3, 2012, count towards reward redemption.

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September 14-16, 2012 Greater Seattle Area Everyone deserves a lifetime - and you deserve the experience of a lifetime!

The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure is a 60-mile walk for women and men who want to make a personal difference in the fight to end breast cancer. Participants walk 60 miles in three days and help raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research and patient support programs.

Each night of the event, walkers experience an incredible mobile city that’s more than just sleeping tents and warm showers, where they can eat, relax and renew their spirit with their fellow walkers.

We believe that everyone deserves a lifetime. No one should have to live without their mother, daughter, sister, husband or friend. That’s why we commit to walking 60 miles in three days. The 3-Day is the boldest breast cancer event of its kind.

Register at www.the3day.org.

Annual Survivor Celebration September 9, 2012 Aboard a Holland America Line Ship at Pier 91 Puget Sound breast cancer survivors and co-survivors celebrate their journey with an exceptional experience onboard a luxurious Holland America Line ship.

Lunch for the Cure® October 4, 2012 | Tacoma Convention Center The Lunch for the Cure has become one of Pierce County’s most important fundraising events. Eight hundred community leaders join together in the promise to end breast cancer, by furthering breast cancer education and awareness, and energizing science in the discovery of the cure.

In 2012, the Lunch for the Cure will be in its 11th year of bringing together community members to make a powerful statement against breast cancer, honoring those who have lost their battle and celebrating survivors.

Learn more at www.komenpugetsound.org.

Power of a Promise® October 24, 2012 Luncheon The Sheraton Hotel, Seattle This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Power of a Promise Luncheon, now located in downtown Seattle. Influential community leaders will join together to raise funds to provide lifesaving breast cancer health education, screening, and treatment support for underserved women living in Western Washington.

Guests are treated to an exquisite dining experience, vistas of the Puget Sound, plus an inspirational program and entertainment.

Be a part of the 10th Anniversary Power of a Promise luncheon. Help ensure all women have access to lifesaving breast cancer screening and if diagnosed, will receive the most effective treatment for survival.

Learn more at www.komenpugetsound.org

Learn more at www.komenpugetsound.org.

Visit komenpugetsound.org or call 206.633.0303 for more information.

Early Detection of Breast Cancer Saves Lives Eight hundred Washington women lost their lives to breast cancer last year. With early detection, odds are 98% for survival for five years. However, if breast cancer is detected late, with the danger of the cancer spreading, odds for survival drop to just 23%. Now is the time to take charge of your breast health.

Take Care of Yourself.

Monitor your Breast Health.

We want to inspire you to take an active role in your own breast health.

Remember: • Know your breast cancer risk • Get screened

• Know what is normal for you • Make healthy lifestyle choices

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For years, Keith Morgan donated to the Susan G. Komen for Cure. Now he’s turned his talents in photography to end breast cancer

By Daron Anderson UW News Lab With more than 40 years of experience, including a stint as his fashion-designer aunt’s photographer when he was 12, Keith Morgan now combines his passion for photography with his commitment to end breast cancer.

After donating for years, Morgan began volunteering his time and photography skills to the Puget Sound Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. “[It’s] my favorite charity,” he said. “I do all I can for them.”

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Puget Sound has invested $23 million to fund local efforts since it was founded in 1992, according to the organization’s website.

From financing breast-health education, outreach and research to providing access to mammogram screening, the foundation fosters a community with a “shared a vision of ending breast cancer forever,” the website states.

Morgan is passionate about the foundation’s vision; he has family members, friends and co-workers who have been affected by breast cancer. While in college, Morgan also worked as a part-time orderly in the radiology department at the San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, Calif.

“Watching so many women go through the diagnosis and treatment, firsthand, has made me a strong advocate of early detection,” he wrote in an email. “One way we can all help is by donating our time and resources to organizations such as Komen, which are not only helping people to receive diagnosis and treatment, but also working toward a cure.”

Morgan devotes 20 to 40 hours to the foundation per month. While he initially volunteered as a photographer, he now also helps operate events.

“Producing such large events requires large teams of volunteers to set up (and) operate, then tear down (and) clean up after the event,” he wrote. “Since I am already attending the events, finding ways to help before and after the events is easy as the Komen staff is really flexible and accommodating to their volunteer’s needs!”

Jennifer Teeler, volunteer coordinator at Susan G. Komen for the Cure Puget Sound, said Morgan is truly committed to the

foundation.

“From the time he filled out the volunteer application, he has jumped in with both feet,” she said. “He takes gorgeous portraits and event shots and is so generous. He is wonderful to work with.”

While growing up, Morgan wrote, his parents motivated him to volunteer. Today, his employer, Microsoft, also encourages him. Microsoft donates $17 for each hour

giving back to a world that has provided so much,” Morgan wrote. “Microsoft also encourages employees to give back by matching employee contributions, donating cash for hours worked, providing gifts in kind, such as software and cash donations, for which I am also grateful.”

Jim Clune, communications manager for the Puget Sound Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, said he appreciates the time Morgan donates to the foundation.

Morgan takes “off time from work, fights rush-hour traffic between Microsoft and the Komen office in Seattle, gives up his Saturdays.”

“Keith’s talent in photography is matched only by his dedication to the Komen mis-

“One way we can all help is by donating our time and resources...” an employee volunteers to a charity of his or her choice.

“My parents taught me the importance of

sion,” Clune wrote. “Komen Puget Sound is truly blessed to have Keith Morgan as a volunteer, a photographer and a supporter.”

Morgan is finishing a series of photographs for the foundation’s annual report and working on the production of a fashion show that will introduce members of Team Microsoft, who will participate in the June 3 Komen One Day Race.

“Komen has become a very important charity to me,” Morgan wrote. “I grew up at a time in which one would never openly speak about breast cancer. But today, through the efforts of groups such as Komen, we can more openly address these types of cancer and the work and resources needed to find a cure. Until that cure is found, I am committed to helping raise funds and awareness for this cause.”

For more information about Komen Puget Sound, visit its website at http://www.KomenPugetSound. org.

Keith Morgan took this photographs of Susan G. Komen for the Cure supports as they stand together during Komen Puget Sound Advocacy day in the rotunda at the state capitol in Olympia.

Daron Anderson is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory.

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“We would really love to make this race

the biggest and best race ever”

By Erica Thompson UW News Lab Jamie Newbold began her journey with the local Susan G. Komen foundation when she heard an ad on the radio for a three-day walk in 2004. After participating, she began volunteering and became a part of the staff three years ago.

Today, Newbold is manager of the annual Race for the Cure for the Puget Sound Affiliate.

“It’s a year-round preparation so my whole world revolves around the race,” Newbold said. “As soon as I finish one, I close the books and start the next one.”

The Puget Sound region is home to one of 122 affiliate offices around the U.S. and organizes a 5k run/walk each year to raise money.

This year’s event will be held on June 3. Seventy-five percent of the funds are used locally for screenings, education and treatment support, while the other 25 percent combine with all other race funds around the country for global research.

“We would really love to make this the biggest and best race ever,” Newbold said.

Last year’s race raised $1.6 million with 13,000 runners and walkers. Although once held at Husky

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“I think that what we have here in the Northwest is a group of volunteers … [who] are doing everything there is to support the organization behind it, and we have great media partners,” Newbold said. “I think we can’t go very far without talking to someone whose life has been affected by breast cancer.”

This is true for this year’s grand marshal, University of Washington head football coach Steve Sarkisian. His sister-in-law is battling breast cancer. Sarkisian is also a “Pink Tie Guy,” which is a program created to lend a male voice in the fight against breast cancer and raise awareness in the Puget Sound area through their status in the community.

“So many people think it’s only a women’s disease, but the reality is that everyone in your family is fighting it and sometimes men get breast cancer too,” Newbold said.

Newbold receives letters of thanks from people in the community that she said she never expects, but it keeps her going.

“You walk in and put on an event with 13,000 people, but at the same time you get a thank you from somebody who is going through treatment right now and is making a very difficult decision of ‘Do I pay to put myself through treatment or do I keep food on the table for my family?’” she said.

“You just don’t realize how much a couple hundred dollars can impact people’s lives when they are going through a disease that is really putting them in a bad place.”

And there is no better place than Seattle to keep fighting.

“Seattle is very philanthropic and they are very big on being outdoorsy and being out in the community,” Newbold said. “So when you combine the two together with something that has touched so many people, we’ve been able to have such a successful race year after year.”

The Puget Sound Affiliate of Susan G. Komen was founded in 1992 by CJ Taylor and a group of community volunteers, all of whom shared a vision of ending breast cancer forever. Their first Race for the Cure took place in 1994, raising $56,000 with 3,000 participants.

Erica Thompson is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory.

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One woman’s story When cancer strikes: The fear, the feelings, the tears, the cure

– and then it returns

By Lori Midgett I found a lump in my left breast in July 1999. I thought it could not be breast cancer because no one in my family had it except an aunt who gotten in her 80’s.

I was only 43 years old after all.

I had vacation coming up, too, so I scheduled an appointment for the Monday after returning from vacation. I was a little late with my mammogram, too – a year over due.

After they took the films, they asked me to wait. The radiologist came into my room and told me it did not look good. I needed to see my doctor ASAP. I told him my doctor was upstairs. He told me I

should go there directly.

My doctor happened to be off that day. I was scared now. I had two teenagers, a 16-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter. Was I going to see them graduate high school?

The radiologist was pretty certain I had breast cancer; he just wasn’t sure what stage. I called my husband on the way home since I was sure to be crying and didn’t know how to tell him with the kids there. I came home and called a good friend of mine who is a surgery nurse. She recommended a surgeon. I called and scheduled my appointment.

She told me I had two options, I

could have a biopsy, or a lumpectomy. I wanted the lumpectomy. I figured if the radiologist was correct, it would lead to that anyway.

If it was indeed cancer, I wanted it out now! She scheduled me for that week, just a couple days out.

I learned I had Stage 2 breast cancer, ductal carcinoma. I would have to have chemo and radiation.

We sat the kids down to tell them.

My son (optimistic or in denial) was very positive, “you will be OK mom, you will see!” My daughter fell apart.

After meeting with my surgeon, I gave my daughter a book they loaned me; (Susan Loves Breast Book) she read everything she

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needed to feel better about my outcome. This was also the first day I saw my husband cry. After that, everything seemed to be reactive.

I went to my chemo treatments.

My husband took me to each one. I had eight treatments, three weeks apart. The first four made me very sick. I had Adriamyacin and Cytoxin. The morning of the fourth treatment I looked at my husband and started crying, I said “I don’t want to do this today.” He just looked at me and said “too bad, you don’t have a choice, you are going.”

The good part was after that fourth treatment, the drugs changed and so would the side effects. The fifth through eighth treatments were Taxol; they made me ache all over, but were a welcome change to the nausea.

My hair started to fall out just before my second treatment.

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ONE WOMAN’S STORY, from page 7

On our anniversary, I asked my husband if he wanted to go out with a

redhead or a blonde

started to cry. He stopped, but I told him to keep going – I bought a couple of synthetic wigs.

I had decided that I was going to continue to work as much as I could to keep my life “normal.”

Most everyone at work knew what was going on with me so I would switch up my hair to match my outfits, I tried to have some fun with it. I am normally blond.

I started with blond wigs, then branched out to red! I had some fun with that, too!

Our anniversary was coming up in October, and I asked him if he wanted to go out with a redhead or a blonde. He said whoever I wanted to be that night (chicken).

After I finished my eight treatments of chemo, I started my radiation. I underwent 6.5 weeks (five days a week) of radiation. I burned so badly I cracked and bled. I was unable to work a few days at the end because I would not go to work without a bra.

Then I started healing, my hair was back and I was going to put ALL THIS BEHIND ME! About six months later I had a lot of swelling in my arm and it ached. I could not figure what I could have done to injure it. Then

in hit me – lymphodema. I read about it, but I wasn’t going to get it, so I didn’t pay it much attention.

Maybe I wasn’t supposed to put it all behind me. Maybe I was supposed to remember this. At least that is the signal I chose to take from it.

I underwent therapy and more scares – don’t get manicures, don’t wash dishes, don’t cut that arm, watch for infection, don’t fly without wearing a sleeve – on and on. After a while, I found that if I exercised it (not heavy weights) it actually got better. I still wear a sleeve when flying, or if I get a flare up, but not all the time, and I am back to getting manicures.

I also went overboard on eating right. I started changing my diet, and then of course my family’s. I started making soy shakes. They were fantastic. The family loved them. Soy has estrogen in it and I was having hot flashes. It helped a lot as long as I used tofu and soy milk (soy milk alone does not have enough estrogen to make a difference).

My husband (the mighty meat eater) drew the line at tofu for main course. I tried it only once.

We laugh about it now.

So, 12 years have gone by, I am going to be a grandma now. It is time for my yearly mammogram; I make a day out of it now. I go in for my yearly check up, get my mamo and take myself to lunch.

Since my daughter was not working, I say, come with! We will go to lunch.

I am finally getting over the fear

of that mammogram. I take her to the waiting room with me. I go behind into the room, they come back for more pictures. I know the way this works now.

I say, “I am not going to worry about this yet.” The technician says, “that is good.”

After about the third picture I start to cry. Not again, please. And my pregnant daughter is in the next room waiting for me to go to lunch. She is watching people leave. “Where is my mom?” she wonders? I am thinking my poor daughter, she must be frantic.

The tech goes and gets her for me. Then they give me an ultrasound and say I am to come back in a couple days for a procedure.

We skip lunch and go home. Turns out I have breast cancer again, this time in the right breast.

I have to wait too long to hear my results, almost a month. They don’t want to tell me on the phone.

I say, but this is not my first time at this. I go to my surgeon’s office.

Good news, only Stage 0. Stage 0? really? I didn’t know there was a Stage 0. What does that mean?

It means we caught it very early.

I only need to have radiation this time. Yeah! (I guess.)

If I had to have it again, this is how to do it. I go in every 366 days for my yearly check up. I will continue this – will I ever forget?

No, I don’t think so, but I can help others and show and tell them it is not a death sentence. There are cures and happy endings.

Lori Midgett lives in Des Moines

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Celebrating Survivors at Race Day

From the moment a person’s breast cancer diagnosis is confirmed, she or he is considered a survivor. Thoughtful gestures big and small mean so much to survivors, whether they’ve just been diagnosed or completed treatment many years ago. Race Day is an opportunity for us to recognize our survivors for their bravery, and to show them how much they are loved, cherished, and respected.

Special survivor recognition includes a complimentary pink cap and t-shirt

provided by Zeta Tau Alpha.

Survivors are also invited to visit the Survivor Celebration Tent located on the Fisher Pavilion rooftop for sparkling cider, pastries, goodie bags, travel prizes, a photo-op and an excellent view of the Race Day festivities! Race Day concludes on an emotional high note with a motivating and inspiring Survivor Parade.

, Dear Fellow Survivor

I was diagnosed Almost two years ago, s fortunate with breast cancer. I wa ved my life… that early detection sa only life but mine was not the e life of my that concerned me. Th my friends and daughter, my mother, munity are the women in my com , I committed equally important. So my power to to doing everything in an, regardless of ensure that every wom d have access to her ability to pay, woul ent and financial the screening, treatm life. I also made support that saved my pport research the commitment to su eir life nobody would lose th to find a cure, so that to this disease. y t, not only through m I fulfill my commitmen w participating with fello daily work, but also by for the en Puget Sound Race survivors in the Kom

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Top Ratings for Financial Stewardship – Five Years Running

Komen Puget Sound Awards $2.1 Million in Grants to Fight Breast Cancer Locally

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As a breast cancer survivor I know how important early detection is. With about 1,000 women in Washington on a waitlist for needed mammograms, this $1.3 million grant from Komen Puget Sound will help make an immediate and important difference for low-income and underserved women in our community.

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When I started to get pain in my armpit and right breast, I did a selfexamination in the shower and found a lump. I was frozen with terror. What was even more frightening to me was the fact that we had no health insurance. A friend’s mom worked for county health and told me about Michelle with husband Garth a state program for breast cancer patients without insurance. I called the Washington Breast and Cervical Health Program and they approved my support right away. The sense of relief was so incredibly great. I still don’t have the words to say how grateful I am for the help I received and am still receiving. I know that it saved my life.

Thank you for the support and keeping these programs going.

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– Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire

Education and Early Detection: Washington State Department of Health

Komen Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Program

– Michelle Huseby Supported by a grant from Komen Puget Sound

YWCA of Seattle/King County & Snohomish County Opening Doors

This funding will provide education and mobile screenings for medically underserved and low-income African-American, Latina, sexual minority and homeless women.

This year, Komen Puget Sound is investing $1.3 million dollars to the Washington State Breast, Cervical, and Colon Health Program (BCCHP) to provide breast cancer screenings for low-income women. The funding will provide lifesaving mammograms to 14,000 low income women living in our region.

Patient Navigation

Franciscan Foundation

Sistah Connection: Patient Navigation for African American Women

Breast Cancer Navigator Program

This funding will improve education and access to screening, diagnosis and treatment for Asian, Pacific Islander, African American, Hispanic, Native American and sexual minority women in Tacoma/Pierce County.

International Community Health Services

Breast Health Outreach, Prevention and Education Program

This funding will provide breast health outreach, education and screening to lowincome, limited English-speaking Chinese, Filipina, Korean, Mien, Samoan and other Pacific Islander and Vietnamese women in Seattle/King County.

Lutheran Community Services Northwest – Familias Unidas Nuestra Salud

This program promotes breast cancer awareness and screening in the Hispanic/ Latino community of Snohomish and Skagit Counties.

Center for MultiCultural Health

This program provides assistance to African American women in King County to increase timely access to diagnostic and treatment services to ensure successful completion of treatment for breast cancer.

Citrine Health

Citrine Health’s Patient Navigator

Navigators will provide assistance to uninsured, low-income and/or rural breast cancer patients in Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island and San Juan Counties to increase access to and completion of prescribed treatment.

Mason General Hospital

Breast Cancer Patient Navigation and Outreach

This funding will assist breast cancer patients during treatment and provide survivor support, awareness and screening for low-income women, Latinas, and women living in remote rural areas of Mason County.

Senior Services of Seattle-King County

UW Medicine | School of Medicine

This funding will provide breast health community outreach and education for seniors, especially women of color.

Funding to Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Breast Health Cancer Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance will provide patient navigation services to low-income breast cancer patients.

Breast Health Education and Screening Program

South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency Native Women’s Wellness Program

This program provides breast health outreach, education, screening and support to women in rural tribal communities in southwest Washington who rarely or never have been screened for breast cancer.

Partnering with Patients to Improve Breast Cancer Care

Patient Assistance & Treatment Support

Cancer Lifeline

Komen Patient Assistance Fund

Cancer Lifeline administers Komen Puget Sound funds to provide assistance and support for low-income patients while they are in treatment for breast cancer.

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Investing in Research to Find a Cure – Worldwide and Right Here at Home K

omen Puget Sound is funding groundbreaking research to find a cure for breast cancer.

Twenty five percent of all the money raised locally is pooled and distributed through Komen National Breast Cancer Research and Training Grants, with some funds returning to medical research facilities within the Puget Sound area.

In 2011, Susan G. Komen spent $66 million in global research for the cure. Komen has invested over $500 million in research since 1982. Komen is the largest non-government funder of breast cancer research in the world.

Every one of the greatest advances in Breast Cancer Research in the last generation have been supported by Komen-funded grants. Komen-supported medical research into targeted therapies developed for hormone-dependent and HER2-positive breast cancers has helped cut breast cancer recurrences by 50%.

Komen National Grant Funds Early Detection Research in Seattle In March 2012, Susan G. Komen for the Cure awarded a $600,000 grant to Dr. Samir Hanash, a researcher with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Hanash hopes to develop a blood test that would be a companion test to mammograms, but more accurate in detecting breast cancer at an early stage when it is most curable.

Breast Self-Awareness 1. Know your risk 9 Talk to your family to learn about your family

health history

9 Talk to your doctor about your personal risk of

breast cancer

2. Get screened 9 Ask your doctor which screening tests are right for

you if you are at a higher risk

9 Have a mammogram every year starting at age 40

if you are at average risk

9 Have a clinical breast exam at least every 3 years

starting at age 20, and every year starting at age 40

3. Know what is normal for you 9 See your health care provider if you notice any of these

breast changes:

• Lump, hard knot or thickening inside the breast • Swelling, warmth, redness or darkening of the breast • Change in the size or shape of the breast • Dimpling or puckering of the skin • Itchy, scaly sore or rash on the nipple • Pulling in of your nipple or other parts of the breast • Nipple discharge that starts suddenly • New pain in one spot that does not go away

4. Make healthy lifestyle choices 9 Maintain a healthy weight 9 Add exercise into your routine 9 Limit alcohol intake 9 Limit postmenopausal hormone use 9 Breastfeed, if you can

For more information visit our website or call our breast care helpline. www.komen.org

1-877 GO KOMEN (1-877-465-6636)

“Komen’s funding enables us to move the discovery process forward, and demonstrate and validate findings much more quickly,” says Dr. Hanash. “This research is expensive and rigorous, but the result would be a tremendous breakthrough and bring us closer to 100 percent accuracy in detecting breast cancer through a simple blood test that could be done at any clinic or doctor’s office.”

Dr. Samir Hanash

– Dr. Samir Hanash, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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RIGHT DIRECTION Join QFC and the Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure as we raise funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer. Ensuring that all women have access to breast cancer early detection and quality treatment support is the ultimate goal, and QFC is committed to seeing this happen.

Understanding the facts about the disease and knowing the warning signs can help protect you and your loved ones. Here are some useful tips: • Talk to your family and learn about your family health history • Complete monthly breast self-exams • Be alert to any changes in your body • Notify your doctor immediately if you notice any changes or have any concerns • Have yearly check-ups and mammograms, as recommended • Spread the word by talking and sharing with mothers, sisters, family and friends. Love and knowledge are powerful weapons in this battle.

QFC is proud to be the Local Presenting Sponsor of this year’s Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure. We will see you at Seattle Center on June 3rd!