A “pink carnival” held yesterday to raise breast cancer awareness drew a strong turnout and raised money to support breast cancer education among younger women, who are increasingly at risk of suffering from the disease.
A total of 1,552 breast cancer survivors from 35 different charities attended the carnival, and a special mammography car on-site was kept busy during the day, said Lin Wei-chieh (林葳婕), the secretary-general of the Taiwan Breast Cancer Alliance (TBCA), the event’s organizer.
“The response was sensational,” said Lin, carrying a pink backpack and holding a pink umbrella in the rain. She said 40 people had signed up to have mammograms done on-site just two hours into the event at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
Sixty-nine booths selling pink brooches, cupcakes with pink ribbon icing and even pink bras were busy trying to raise money to support the TBCA’s efforts to raise awareness of the disease, especially among young women.
Lin said women in Taiwan were being stricken with the disease at a younger age than women in other parts of the world and therefore needed to pay attention to it earlier than in the past.
According to Lin, the peak age at which Taiwanese women get breast cancer is between 45 and 55, 10 years younger than women in the West. In addition, one in 10 local breast cancer patients are under 40 years of age.
Lin said her group reminds women 45 years and older to make sure they undergo -government-funded mammograms each year and urged women above 35 to sign up for ultrasounds to keep the disease at bay.
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