For Angie Bryl, CPO and Dawn Miranda, Prosthetist Assistant, Mud Girl Race Day came on July 24, 2021! These ladies had been planning to attend this event for months. Dubbing themselves the “Dankmeyer Pink Ladies”, this event was two-fold. Dawn was preparing to celebrate a very important birthday and wanted to honor those who had passed from breast cancer as well as survivors. Angie and Dawn prepared a team “uniform” and included the names of people they wished to honor.
That morning, they took a road trip to the High Points Event Center in Clarksburg, Maryland. They swapped green Dankmeyer t-shirts to wear bright pink to join the pink army. This is a women only 5K race that includes 17 very muddy obstacles that will prove to challenge and bond the women that run for the survivors and those who were not able to beat the demon called breast cancer. On this day, they run for all women.
Here are some statics about breast cancer.
· About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 13%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
· In 2021, an estimated 281,550 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 49,290 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
· About 2,650 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in men in 2021. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 833.
· About 43,600 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2021 from breast cancer. Death rates have been steady in women under 50 since 2007, but have continued to drop in women over 50. The overall death rate from breast cancer decreased by 1% per year from 2013 to 2018. These decreases are thought to be the result of treatment advances and earlier detection through screening.
A reference to breast cancer inflation can be found at the American Cancer Society. How Common Is Breast Cancer? Jan. 2021.
Dawn has a more detailed report and more pictures in her July blog. Click here.
