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Honoring Heroes With A Breast Cancer Ribbon For those who fight the battle against this cancer on a daily basis, the support of family and friends is just as important as the treatment received. This family of patients and supporters strong in numbers - often find the wearing of a breast cancer ribbon to be a sign of their connectivity and a larger call for breast cancer awareness and aggressive strides in research. Skin Cancer Can Be Avoided Skin cancer is diagnosed more often than all other cancers combined. In 2006, more than 62,000 people in the United States discovered they had this cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Ultraviolet or UV rays are to skin cancer what smoking is to lung cancer-a highly avoidable cancer-causing agent. Smoking Greatly Increases The Risk For Lung Cancer Lung cancer is the most deadly of all cancers. It is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, according to the American Cancer society. More people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. Saving Lives Through Breast Cancer Awareness The insidiousness of breast cancer is without parallel - affecting over a million people a year worldwide and claiming the lives of women at a rate second only to lung cancer. As women battle for their lives on a daily basis, a grassroots movement to educate the women of the world continues to surge.