1 in 8 Are NOT Odds that I Like

The National Cancer Institute predicts that one in eight women (or 12.7 percent) born today will develop breast cancer sometime in her lifetime. Sure, right now there is a seven-in-eight chance that you or any woman you know will not get breast cancer, but most likely, you are going to know someone.

I have nine nieces and I don't want any of them to get cancer, but chances are that one of them will. I have a total of eight sisters and sisters-in-law. I don't want any of them to be affected by breast cancer, but the odds aren't in my favor there either. There is a good chance that two or three of the women that I played on softball teams with this year will be diagnosed with breast cancer. In my last two jobs I interacted with numerous women on a daily basis. If things don't change, seven of them could be affected. 130 of my Facebook friends are women. At a minimum, 16 of these wonderful women will most likely be diagnosed with breast cancer. This is just a glimpse of the groups of women in my life and there are too many potential victims of breast cancer for my liking, so I decided to take a stand … or more accurately, take a walk.

Please support me as I take an amazing journey in the fight against breast cancer! The Breast Cancer 3-Day is a 60-mile walk over the course of three days. Net proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure and National Philanthropic Trust, funding important breast cancer research, education, screening, and treatment.

Together, we can help make the world a safer place FOR ALL BOOBS.

Thanks!