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Share Your Temple Terrace Breast Cancer Awareness Events

How are you participating, pledging support and donating to the cause in Temple Terrace and Florida?

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we want to know what you’re doing to celebrate.

Are you participating in walks, fundraisers or other events? Tell us in the comments section. You can also add events to our calendar and photos of you and your friends supporting the cause to the photo gallery above.

Events in the Tampa Bay area include:

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Residents in Tallahassee will be participating in the seventh annual bike ride, organized by various bike shops to spread breast cancer awareness.

There are even more ways to spread breast cancer awareness this month by supporting national organizations that are fighting for a cure.

Research centers like Susan G. Komen for the Cure are selling pink ribbon merchandise, and it’s a twofer—retail therapy and donating to a cause that affects millions.

You can also support breast cancer research by affixing a special stamp to your mail. The U.S. Postal Service has been selling a stamp commemorating breast cancer awareness for the past 15 years. The agency has raised $75 million so far for research programs at the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.

The American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk is organized nationwide and so far more than 8 million people have walked for this cause and raised about $460 million.

And you can join people from four continents in a Race for the Cure event organized by Susan G. Komen For The Cure, or an Avon Walk For Breast Cancer event organized by the Avon Foundation for Women.

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