- March 27, 2024
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More than 30 women came together on Wednesday, Oct. 4 to not only play golf but support Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Members of the Cypress Head Women's Golf Association attended the welcome-back luncheon wearing pink, from pink hats, to pink shirts to pink dresses, to honor the annual campaign geared toward increasing awareness of the disease. The women were kicking off their golf season.
"Some of our members and friends and family have been touched by cancer," Sandi Rees, the association's president, said. "And we just thought it would be great to show unity."
"Some of our members and friends and family have been touched by cancer" Sandi Rees, Cypress Head Women's Golf Association president
Not counting some kinds of skin cancer, breast cancer in the U.S. is the most common cancer among women and the most common cause of death from cancer among Hispanic women, according to the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC also indicates that, in 2014, 236,968 women and 2,141 men in the U.S. were diagnosed with breast cancer while 41,211 women and 465 men in the in the U.S. died from breast cancer.
And as Rees noted, "everybody just has a heightened awareness about it these days."