Wednesday, October 1, 2008

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Philanthropy is an essential core value of ours, both in our personal and professional lives as pediatricians and through MD Moms. As physicians, women and mothers we are committed to raising awareness when it comes to both child and family health.
As you may or may not know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While we love that there is a month of the year dedicated to awareness, we hope it will just be a kickoff to what is an entire year, and lifetime, of action.

It is nearly impossible to encounter a family that has not been touched by this dreadful disease in some way. For some of us it is our mothers or fathers, our sisters, our aunts, our grandmothers. For others it is a best friend, a friend of a friend, an acquaintance.
Many of you reading this have bravely fought and gloriously triumphed over a most devastating diagnosis. Too many women (and men) have not.
One more mother, one more grandparent, one more individual dying from breast cancer is one treasured person too many.

During the month of October, we will be donating 15% of the web sales of Baby Silk on our site mdmoms.com to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
This global organization, founded by the extraordinary Evelyn Lauder fifteen years ago, is dedicated to finding a cure in our lifetime and we hope we can help make that goal a reality!

We hope you will be inspired by a person you know, or even one you don't, to join us, get involved, and take action to fight breast cancer.

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