You may have noticed an increase in the number of things which are pink recently. If you were watching a professional football game on Sunday October 4, you saw players and referees wearing pink gloves and pink cleats and goal posts wrapped in pink. Large groups of people wearing pink clothes and pink feather boas and hats have been seen walking together in many cities and towns. The pink ribbon symbol is everywhere.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The number of people not affected by breast cancer in some way grows smaller every year. Fortunately, the resources available to women, or men, living with breast cancer increase all the time. A number of good, informative sources can be found online. If you are interested in participating in a fundraising walk, the Nashua walk, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, will take place on Sunday, October 18. Information about the walk can be found on an events website for the American Cancer Society The New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition maintains another helpful site. There is a site for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as well as one for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The Susan G Korman for the Cure site also contains a wealth of information.

Breast cancer does not discriminate by sex or age. Breast cancer in younger women is not unknown, however, young women don't always take this possibility seriously. Advertising campaigns and websites are being developed to help them realize that breast cancer is not just about their grandmothers. Rethink Breast Cancer is one such site. Another site, Save the tatas tailors its approach to educate younger women and men about the seriousness of breast cancer with a much less serious approach.

One of the major weapons in the fight against breast cancer is the mammogram. October 15 is National Mammography Day. At the Breast Cancer Site.com during the month of October, a mouse click will enable someone in need to have a free mammogram. One quick click a day, costing you nothing, will be counted toward sponsor -funded mammograms for individuals who would otherwise not get them.

If you would rather have a book than a website, or if you want a little of both, there are a number of books @ your library on the subject of breast cancer. Here is a partial list:

Choices in breast cancer treatment by Kenneth D. Miller
Pretty is what changes by Jessica Queller
I am not my breast cancer by Ruth A. Peltason
Breast cancer: the complete guide by Yashar Hirshaut
The 10 best questions for surviving breast cancer by Dede Bonner
The breast cancer survival manual by John S. Link
Be a survivor by Vladimir Lange
Breast cancer basics and beyond by Delthia Ricks
Breast cancer answers by Bruce A. Feinberg
Breast cancer husband by Marc Silver