Fusion 3 Salon has made a donation to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer on behalf of our longtime guest, Peg McCaslin!
You can help too!
Did you know?
According to the Avon Breast Cancer crusade:
- Approximately 178,480 women and 2,030 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year
- 40,460 women and 450 men in the U.S. will die from the disease annually.
- There are over 2 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. who have been treated for breast cancer
- Every 3 minutes, there is a new diagnosis of invasive breast cancer
- There are more than 250,000 women under the age of 40 in the U.S living with breast cancer, and over 11,000 will be diagnosed this year
- A woman has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime
- Every 13 minutes, a life is lost to breast cancer
- White, non-Hispanic women are more likely to develop breast cancer but African-American women are more likely to die from it.
- Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Hispanic women and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among this group.