Pink Ribbon History
What month is breast cancer awareness observed?
A) June
B) October
C) February
D) September
What is October?
This specialized x-ray of the breast is the primary screening tool use to find cancer early.
A) Ultrasound
B) Mammogram
C) MRI
D) CT Scan
True or False: Men can get breast cancer.
What is True?
While it is significantly less common, men possess breast tissue and account for about 1% of all breast cancer cases.
This is the average lifetime risk for a woman in the US to develop breast cancer.
A) 1 in 4
B) 1 in 8
C) 1 in 20
D) 1 in 50
What is 1 in 8?
Limiting this specific beverage type is a lifestyle choice that can lower your breast cancer risk.
A) Coffee
B) Soda
C) Alcohol
D) Milk
What is Alcohol?
Reduced alcohol consumption lowers breast cancer risk because it decreases the body's exposure to toxic breakdown products, hormonal changes, and cellular damage that trigger tumor growth
This is the universal color of the ribbon used to symbolize breast cancer awareness.
A) Red
B) Pink
C) Teal
D) Yellow
What is pink?
This is the ideal frequency recommended for women to perform a breast self-exam.
A) Weekly
B) Monthly
C) Annually
D) Every 5 years
What is monthly?
True or False: Finding a lump in your breast automatically means you have cancer.
What is False?
Most lumps are non-cancerous/benign
This is the approximate percentage of all breast cancer cases that occur in males.
A) 1%
B) 5%
C) 10%
D) 0%
What is 1%
This natural infant-feeding practice can slightly reduce a mother's lifetime risk of breast cancer.
A) Formula feeding
B) Breastfeeding
C) Spoon feeding
D) Early solid food introduction
What is breastfeeding?
Breastfeeding lowers the risk of breast cancer by reducing a woman's lifetime exposure to hormones like estrogen (lactation suppresses ovulation) and by shedding potentially damaged cells from breast tissue.
This cosmetics company executive co-created the pink ribbon in 1992 and distributed them globally.
A) Mary Kay Ash
B) Evelyn Lauder
C) Coco Chanel
D) Helena Rubinstein
What is Evelyn Lauder?
True or False: A mammogram can prevent breast cancer from developing.
What is false?
It detects cancer early, but does not prevent it.
True or False: Wearing an underwire bra or using underarm antiperspirant increases breast cancer risk.
What is False?
Scientific studies have found no link
This is the average 5-year survival rate for localized breast cancer caught early.
A) 50%
B) 75%
C) 88%
D) 99%
What is 99%?
These underarm structures are checked during surgery to see if breast cancer cells have begun to travel.
A) Sweat glands
B) Lymph nodes
C) Tendons
D) Blood vessels
What is lymph nodes?
Doctors check the lymph nodes during breast cancer surgery.
Before the pink ribbon became standard, this foundation handed out bright yellow ribbons for cancer awareness in 1990.
A) American Cancer Society
B) Susan G. Komen
C) National Cancer Institute
D) WHO
What is Susan G. Komen?
This is the medical term for a fluid-filled sac in the breast that is almost always benign.
A) Tumor
B) Cyst
C) Calcification
D) Fibroadenoma
What is a cyst?
True or False: Modifying lifestyle choices like exercising regularly and limiting alcohol can lower your risk.
What is True?
While you cannot change your age or genetics, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, and minimizing alcohol intake are proven ways to reduce statistical risk.
These are the two primary, non-modifiable risk factors for developing breast cancer.
A) Diet and exercise
B) Being female and aging
C) Smoking and stress
D) Deodorant and underwire
What is being female and aging?
This is the medical term for the surgical removal of the entire breast.
A) Lumpectomy
B) Mastectomy
C) Biopsy
D) Endoscopy
What is mastectomy?
A) NBA
B) MLB
C) NFL
D) NHL
What is NFL?
Women with an inherited mutation in this specific gene type have a significantly higher risk of breast cancer.
A) BRCA1 or BRCA2
B) P53
C)HER2
D) EGFR
What is BRCA1 or BRCA2?
Two different genes that help repair damaged DNA and protect against tumor growth.
Mutation in either gene raise the risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancers.
True or False: Most women diagnosed with breast cancer have a direct family history of the disease.
What is False?
About 85% of cases occur in women with no family history
Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer holds this rank among the most common cancers in women worldwide.
A) 1st
B) 2nd
C) 3rd
D) 5th
What is 1st?
This type of medical specialist focuses specifically on treating cancer with therapies like chemotherapy.
A) Radiologist
B) Oncologist
C) Pathologist
D) Dermatologist
What is oncologist?