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MCC Daily Tribune

Brain Cancer Awareness Month

Join us in supporting all those affected by brain cancer during Brain Cancer Awareness Month (also known as Brain Tumor Awareness Month), which is observed each year in May. This is a nationally recognized event throughout the United States. Brain cancer is an often under-publicized type of cancer and there’s a need for a bigger spread of awareness around it.

 

HOW TO OBSERVE BRAIN CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

  1. Support local events

    Check online or on the American Association for Cancer Research website for events happening in your area and plan to attend these.

  2. Celebrate the volunteers and caregivers

    It is not just those afflicted by this disease who fight every day — each caregiver and volunteer and health professional does the same. Acknowledge their efforts and make them feel seen.

  3. Donate

    Each person’s support is critical to ensure the urgent needs of the brain cancer community are met. Apart from the obvious funding donations, consider volunteering your time at charities and nonprofit organizations or even donating something like your hair.

 

5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BRAIN CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

  1. The percentage of brain cancer occurrence

    Only 1.4% of all new cancer cases are brain cancers.

  2. A significant number of people diagnosed annually

    Each year in the U.S., more than 23,000 people are diagnosed with brain cancer and other nervous-system cancers, according to federal statistics.

  3. Ranking

    Brain cancer is the 10th deadliest cancer in the U.S.

  4. Approved drugs

    While 78 investigational drugs have been researched over the last 20 years, only five of them have been approved for use to fight brain tumors.

  5. All tumors can occur anywhere in the brain

    There are 130 different types of brain tumors and all areas of the brain are vulnerable to any of them

 

WHY BRAIN CANCER AWARENESS MONTH IS IMPORTANT

  1. No one fights alone

    This month raises support for those fighting this illness as well as for their caregivers and health providers. The focus on brain cancer lets the affected ones know they are not alone in their fight; they have a community to support them.

  2. It raises awareness

    The whole purpose of this month is to raise understanding and awareness about brain cancer and its effect on the people affected. By raising awareness, the hope is that attention will be drawn to the critical need to find and provide appropriate treatment for those impacted by this illness.

  3. It helps develop an understanding of warning signs

    By learning more about brain cancers, their treatments, and the organizations and people that support such research, we develop a significant understanding of risk behaviors that can contribute to tumors. With such in-depth knowledge, we are better able to recognize some common warning signs that would enable us to seek help.

 

 

Sarah Benedict
MCC Wellness Council
05/19/2022