The Basics
This symbol represents breast cancer awareness.
What is the pink ribbon?
Age, family history, and BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations are examples of this type of risk factor.
What are uncontrollable risk factors?
This imaging test is the most common tool used to detect breast cancer early.
What is a mammogram?
This type of doctor specializes in diagnosing and treating cancer.
Who is an oncologist?
The pink ribbon became the official symbol for breast cancer awareness in this year.
What is 1991?
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated during this month of the year.
What is October?
Alcohol use, inactivity, and obesity are examples of this type of risk factor.
What are controllable risk factors?
This medical procedure removes a small tissue sample to confirm whether a tumor is cancerous.
What is a biopsy?
These surgeries remove part or all of the breast tissue to eliminate cancer.
What are a lumpectomy and mastectomy?
Which foundation first distributed pink ribbons at a Race for the Cure event?
Susan G. Komen Foundation
Approximately 1 in this number of women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
What is 8?
These two genes are most commonly linked to hereditary breast cancer.
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2?
A lump in the breast or underarm is one of the most common examples of this.
What is an early symptom of breast cancer?
This treatment uses high-energy rays to destroy remaining cancer cells after surgery.
What is radiation therapy?
Who helped popularize the pink ribbon globally in 1992?
Estée Lauder and Self magazine
There are over this many breast cancer survivors currently living in the U.S.
What is 3.8 million?
True or False — Only women can develop breast cancer.
What is false?
Skin dimpling or redness are examples of these physical indicators of breast cancer.
What are visible symptoms or physical warning signs?
This treatment uses drugs to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells throughout the body.
What is chemotherapy?
Who originally created the first breast cancer awareness ribbon before it became pink, and what color was it?
Charlotte Haley — a peach-colored ribbon to raise awareness about research funding
This stage of breast cancer has the highest 5-year survival rate, at nearly 99%.
What is stage 1 breast cancer?
This hormone is often linked to the growth of certain breast cancers.
What is estrogen?
Doing this regularly helps you stay aware of what’s normal for your body and catch changes early.
What is performing self-checks or self-exams?
This specialized treatment targets specific genes or proteins in cancer cells.
What is targeted therapy?
Advances in this area are one major reason survival rates for breast cancer have increased.
What is medical technology and early detection?