Culture
This superstar was the lead singer of "The Supremes".
Who is Diana Ross?
This dietary building block can decrease your risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Aim for at least 25-29 grams per day!
What is fiber?
This screenwriter’s claim to fame include titles such as “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club”.
Who is John Hughes?
Name one symptom of breast cancer.
What is swelling of all or part of the breast, skin irritation or dimpling, breast pain, nipple pain or the nipple turning inward, redness, scaliness, or thickening of the nipple or breast skin, a nipple discharge other than breast milk, a lump in the underarm area
40% of diagnosed breast cancers are detected by women who feel a lump. Self-breast exams should be completed this often.
What is once a month?
She was the first woman to travel to space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This type of annual biopsy can find early predictors of cervical cancer, sometimes caused by HPV.
What is a PAP smear?
This English cake is pink, yellow, and covered in marzipan.
What is Battenberg Cake?
Name one breast cancer treatment option.
What is surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, complementary therapy, clinical trials?
This term describes the use of X-rays to take pictures of the breast to detect cancer.
What is a mammogram?
She had a career that spanned 7 decades, with major roles in the Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Golden Girls.
Who is Betty White?
This type of birth control is non-hormonal and can be set in place for up to 10 years.
What is the copper IUD/paragard?
In Tokyo, each spring you can view pink cherry blossoms, also known as this Japanese floral word.
What is Sakura?
Name one late effect of breast cancer treatment.
What is bone health problems, changes in treatment site, early menopause, depression, fear of recurrence/PTSD, heart problems, infertility, leukemia, lymphedema, numbness/pain, weight gain?
Most common warning sign of breast cancer.
What is a painless lump or thickening in the breast or chest area?
Often described as the "best actress of her generation", she won her 3rd Academy Award for "The Iron Lady" (2011).
Who is Meryl Streep?
Heart disease is the number 1 killer of women in the U.S. and a heart attack often looks different in women than men. Name 3 symptoms of a heart attack seen in women.
What are pressure in the chest, pain (arms, back, neck, jaw, stomach), shortness of breath, cold sweat, nausea, lightheadedness, upset stomach, anxiety, tiredness/weakness
In this river system you can find pink dolphins.
What is The Amazon Basin?
The name of the gene commonly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer when mutated.
What is BRCA?
The average age that women should start having clinical breast exams.
What is age 20?
She co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
This hormone drops during menopause and can affect your bone density, muscle mass, cholesterol levels, collagen production, and blood sugar.
What is estrogen?
In this gallery you can find Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks.
What is National Gallery, London?
TRUE or FALSE: Advances in treatments, early detection, and awareness of self-examination have increased the 5-year survival rate from 76% in 1975 to 93% in 2017.
TRUE, these efforts along have cured or extended the lifespans of many people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Name three risk factors for breast cancer.
Older age, dense breast tissue, obesity, alcohol consumption, family history of breast cancer, radiation exposure, hormone therapy for menopause