The South Dallas Business and Professional Women’s Club, Inc. was selected to receive the 2019 Advocacy Award. It was presented on Jan. 25 by the Bridge Breast Network of Dallas during their Annual Awards Recognition Breakfast at the Park City Club in north Dallas.
Bridge Breast Network’s Executive Director Terry Wilson-Gray informed President Gwendolyn H. Daniels and Triple the PINK Committee Chair Yvonne Upton of the award towards the end of 2018. South Dallas BPW supports the nonprofit by routinely providing gifts for cancer patients and by contributing creative baskets offered for auction during the Bridge Breast Network’s signature fundraiser.
Triple the PINK is a national project created in 2015 by Dr. Lavern J. Holyfield, First Vice President of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. She is responsible for the Association’s program initiatives across the country. Triple the PINK’s programmatic thrust is to bring awareness of Triple Negative Breast Cancer and the high incidence of this disease in the African American community.
According a report from Center for Disease Control (CDC) last fall, black women and white women get breast cancer at about the same rate, but black women die from breast cancer at a higher rate than white women.
Compared with white women, black women had lower rates of getting breast cancer (incidence rates) and higher rates of dying from breast cancer (death rates) between 1999 and 2013. During this period, breast cancer incidence went down among white women, and went up slightly among black women. Now, breast cancer incidence is about the same for women of both races.
Deaths from breast cancer are going down among both black and white women, especially among younger black women. But breast cancer death rates are 40 percent higher among black women than white women. – CDC
For more information on the South Dallas Club, visit their website at www.southdallasbpwc.org.
