MBCC’s Against the Tide Breast Cancer Prevention Events to Take Place in Summer

QUINCY, Massachusetts, January 4. DATES and venues for the 2007 Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition's Against the Tide one-mile swim, two-mile kayak and three mile fitness walk have been decided.

The events will take place at the following locations and times:
15th Annual Metro Boston
7:30am – Noon
Saturday, June 23
Hopkinton State Park
Hopkinton, MA

Eighth Annual Cape Cod
7:30am – Noon
Saturday, August 18
Nickerson State Park
Brewster, MA

Against The Tide is a one-mile swim, two-mile kayak and three-mile fitness walk to benefit the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC). This fun and inspirational program brings together swimmers, kayakers and walkers of all ages and abilities who would like to join MBCC in efforts to eradicate the breast cancer epidemic.

Participants commit to raising a minimum of $150 in contributions to participate. All funds raised go directly to breast cancer prevention through the advocacy work of MBCC and research initiatives of its sister environmental organization, Silent Spring Institute. Registration materials, sponsor information and fundraising ideas can be found at www.mbcc.org/swim.

"Against the Tide is not a big, corporate show, but an event that celebrates families and individuals of all ages and abilities coming together to truly end this epidemic," said Executive Director Deborah Shields, "It is empowering and uplifting to know that we are contributing towards a healthier future; one in which our mothers, daughters and friends will not have to fear that they will be the one in seven diagnosed with breast cancer."

Breast cancer now strikes more women in the world than any other type of cancer. In the past 50 years, the lifetime risk of breast cancer has nearly tripled in the United States. In the 1940's, a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer was 1 in 22. In the year 2002, the risk was 1 in 8 and is presently 1 in 7. The increasing prevalence reinforces the necessity to reverse the trend and prevent breast cancer from occurring in the first place.

The Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition is a nonprofit organization committed to stopping the breast cancer epidemic in Massachusetts through activism, advocacy, research and education. Founded in 1991, the focus of MBCC is to find the causes of breast cancer and seek real prevention against this devastating disease.

For more information call 617-376-MBCC or visit www.mbcc.org.
Donations may be sent to Against the Tide c/o MBCC, 1419 Hancock Street, Suite 202, Quincy, MA 02169.

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