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About Breast Health

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation provides information about breast health: being breast aware; knowing about breast cancer risk factors and ways to help reduce the risk of breast cancer; and being informed about breast cancer screening.

About Breast Cancer

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation provides information about breast cancer: the disease and its impact in Canada; how it is diagnosed and treated; and issues related to living with breast cancer and when active treatment ends.

Your Dollars At Work

To help you to see the good work that CBCF is doing across Canada, this section of our website is all about providing you with information on how your donation dollars are spent each year.

Apply For Grants

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation puts donor dollars to work in support of its mission by awarding grants for research and community health projects across the full spectrum of breast health, including prevention and education, screening, diagnosis, treatment and care.

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There are many ways to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Find out how you can volunteer, participate, fundraise, Run for the Cure, donate or shop for the cure.

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With over 100 National and Regional Partners & Sponsors, we have developed a model of sponsorship and cause marketing that is based on best practice and have proven mutual value to many of our partners.

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The Pink Tour
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour is hitting the road for a summer-long tour to engage and inspire community members to learn about the importance of breast cancer screening. Get onboard for breast health when we visit your town!

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The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour is hitting the road for a summer-long tour to engage and inspire community members to learn about the importance of breast cancer screening. Get onboard for breast health when we visit your town!

Check out the schedule here
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The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour is hitting the road for a summer-long tour to engage and inspire community members to learn about the importance of breast cancer screening. Get onboard for breast health when we visit your town!

Check out the schedule here
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The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour is hitting the road for a summer-long tour to engage and inspire community members to learn about the importance of breast cancer screening. Get onboard for breast health when we visit your town!

Find out more
;
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour is hitting the road for a summer-long tour to engage and inspire community members to learn about the importance of breast cancer screening. Get onboard for breast health when we visit your town!

Check out the schedule here
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The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour is hitting the road for a summer-long tour to engage and inspire community members to learn about the importance of breast cancer screening. Get onboard for breast health when we visit your town!

Check out the schedule here
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Every day, 66 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Your gift of hope today can help make this statistic history.

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National Grant Competition in Early Detection. Advancing technologies with strategic potential for enabling the earlier detection of breast cancer.

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Thank you to all who applied.

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Be Breast Aware

Men as well as women have breast tissue and can develop diseases of the breast, including cancer. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation encourages women and men to be breast aware.

Breasts change throughout life. Being breast aware means being familiar with how your breasts normally look and feel, knowing what changes to look for, and discussing any unusual breast changes with a health care provider.

Current scientific evidence supports being breast aware as an empowering approach to women’s preventive health care. It encourages you to know your breasts and how they change over the course of the monthly menstrual cycle, in pregnancy or breastfeeding, or as we age.

There is no right way or proper technique to being breast aware. You find a way or ways that are comfortable for you.
There is also no time schedule for being breast aware. You do it at a time and in a place that works for you.
Breast awareness is an important part of proactive and preventive health care but it does not claim to save lives or reduce deaths from breast cancer.

Steps to breast awareness

Know how your breasts normally look and feel.
Know what visible changes to check for.
Look and feel for changes.
Discuss any changes with a health care provider.
Learn about the benefits and limitations of screening for earlier detection breast cancer and make an informed decision about what is right for you.

Encourage the women and men in your life to be breast aware.

More Information:

Breast changes to look for

Knowing how your breasts look and feel

Clinical breast exam

Normal breast changes

Benign breast conditions

NEED TO CONTACT US?

> CBCF Central Office

375 University Avenue, Suite 301, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2J5
Tel : (416)596-6773 or toll free 1(800)387-9816

> BC / Yukon

300 - 1090 West Pender St. Vancouver, BC V6E 2N7 General Inquiries: cbcfbc@cbcf.org
Tel: 604.683.2873 or toll free 1.800.561.6111

> Atlantic

5251 Duke Street, Suite 417 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1P3
Tel: (902) 422-5520 or toll free 1-866-273-2223

> Prairies / NWT

700, 10665 Jasper Ave. Edmonton, AB
T5J 3S9 Tel: 780-452-1166 / 1-866-302-2223
Fax: 780-451-6554

430, 1324 – 17 Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2T 5S8 Tel: 403-209-2233 Fax: 403-209-2366

304, 1 Wesley Ave. Winnipeg, MB R3C 4C6 Tel: 204-231-4885 / 1-866-267-3948
Fax: 204-231-4910

Tel: 780-452-1166 or toll free 1-866-302-2223

> Ontario

20 Victoria Street, 6th Floor Toronto, ON M5C 2N8
Tel: (416) 815-1313 or toll free 1 (866) 373-6313

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