It’s October, Are You Breast Cancer Aware? tw Magazine Asks
Each year, October is set aside as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, while October 13th is “No Bra Day” to raise awareness about mammograms and early detection.
In the spirit of breast cancer awareness, tw magazine will like to reinforce two important elements of breast cancer awareness month.
These include:
1) the importance of early detection of the disease by having frequent doctor’s check ups and self-examination.
2) Having discussions about the disease with others as well as making contribution to breast cancer research.
If #NoBraDay was REALLY about breast cancer awareness, every tweet would have a pic like this, not topless selfies pic.twitter.com/wF3knZIjIP
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) October 13, 2015
Even celebrities went bra-less
Selena Gomez Celebrated No Bra Day! #NoBraDay #BMS pic.twitter.com/IaEDij9dli
— Billy Madison (@BMS_Billy) October 14, 2015
The point of having a breast cancer awareness month and a day dedicated to not wearing bras is to enlighten more women of breast cancer, facilitate self-examination and motivate people to contribute to cancer research. A woman who has to have a mastectomy or double mastectomy as a result of breast cancer may have endless “no bra days.” As a result, taking one day out of the year to be bra-less let’s you have a little idea of what some women who have had breast cancer have experienced. On a larger note, breast cancer awareness month promotes the discussion of breast cancer, symptoms, treatments and practices for self-examination. In addition, it reminds women that breast cancer could happen to anyone – it also promotes a healthy dialogue of how women have dealt with the disease in the past.
Here’s a Buzzfeed video of women’s experience of #NoBraDay, only that Buzzfeed made these women go bra-less for up to a week.
We had these women go braless for a week 😬
Happy National #NoBraDay! 👙https://t.co/WYfOrlpa88
— BuzzFeedVideo (@BuzzFeedVideo) October 13, 2015
#NoBraDay empowered breast cancer survivors to share photos of themselves wit