Race for the Cure 5/30/09

I admit I should have done this blog sooner, and I fully meant to...The delay is because I wanted to get some pink flowers to do a photo with, or just a photo of pink gerber daisies, but I realized that I'm just never going to make it to the florist during the week (and have been out of town on the weekends).



So! Saturday, May 30th I will be running a 5K race for Susan G. Komen, race for the cure.

If you have a few extra dollars to donate to the cause you can sponser me by:
1. Go to this website
2. Type in my name: Kristina Cirves
3. I'm the only name that comes up
4. Click "support kristina" above the yellow box with my goal meter.
5. Enter your payment information.

Easy!! I hope that you will, it's a good cause, and there are far too many women out there who suffer from it.

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"How Many Women Get Breast Cancer?

The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States are for 2009:

192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer
40,170 deaths from breast cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.

The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is about 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Breast cancer death rates are going down. This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and improved treatment. Right now there are about two and a half million breast cancer survivors in the United States"

(This last section was copied and pasted from theAmerican Cancer Society website.)