Quiz: Your Ideal Breast Cancer Early Detection Plan

Following up to breast cancer awareness beauty shopping guide, we need to arm ourselves with the knowledge about breast cancer. It's not a laughing matter as women are at high risks of breast cancer. Take this quiz to answer the questions to help access our risks and find out what precautions we should be taking. Prevention is always better than cure and as I've mentioned before, early detection is always treatable like brave celebrities such as Christina Applegate, Anastasia, Kylie Minogue, Cynthia Nixon and many more. My aunt has had breast cancer but luckily she had it detected in the early stages. Luckily, now after treatment and 5 years on, she is still declared breast cancer-free. That is really good news to all of us! I really hope all of you will take this quiz as a first step to empowering yourself about breast cancer and the precautions necessary.

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Quiz: Your Ideal Breast Cancer Early Detection Plan

Answer these questions to access your risk and find out what precautions you should be taking

According to the National Cancer Institute it is estimated that 182,460 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 and 40,480 of those women will die. In order to be part of the two and a half million women who survive, you need to know how at risk of breast cancer you are and take all necessary steps to make sure that if you do get breast cancer you catch it and treat it early. This quiz is your first step in the right direction. Take the quiz

Breast Cancer Awareness Beauty Shopping Guide

Hello there fellow Beauty Tyrants, October is the inaugural month for Breast Cancer Awareness. Let's all make this October a prettier, pinker and more powerful month. There are many ways we can do so, by going for breast examinations regularly, adopt a healthier lifestyle and to believe in prevention is better than cure. Apart from that, early detection of breast cancer is almost always treatable and please have the courage to seek for help. Breast cancer is nothing to be ashamed of and almost all of us have had some kind of scare, be it on ourselves or with our loved ones. Together we can make a difference here, through something as simple as shopping for pink products to support this great cause. Despite some scepticism on pink products during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, check out the approved list of exclusive pink products here and with every product sold, a donation will be forwarded to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. That's what enbodies Beauty-with-a-cause!

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Breast Cancer Awareness Beauty Shopping Guide

Make October 2008 prettier, pinker and more powerful! Shop pink products and support a great cause!

What can you do to help in the fight against breast cancer? Something simple. Shop today from this collection of exclusive pink products -- because for every one of these products sold, a donation will be made to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Who knew that looking good could make you feel so incredibly good too? Browse guide

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 1st marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I'm proud to mention that this is the first time Beauty Tyrant is having a write-up about breast cancer. I'll be featuring exclusive shopping guide for 'pink products' and a breast self detection quiz.

In the beauty world, you should be quite accustomed to seeing 'pink ribbon' or 'pink products' during the month of October. It's actually a great beauty-with-a-cause but somehow these good intentions are easily misconstrued as marketing scams. Some are believed to be merely marketing ploys by companies, reaping in higher profits from increased sales by riding on the coat-tails of the embodiment of the true meaning of the month of October. Most cynics snicker at the fact that it is the companies who ultimately benefit from it's increased sales than the supposedly charitable benefits it touts.

Just to be fair to everyone involved, each pink ribbon promotion is different across differing promotional styles of each company. There are some who donate all proceeds to charity, some a percentage and even some none at all. To ensure you're buying products that's truly charitable, read the fine prints of the promotional labels and choose pink products that resonates closest to your heart. I, on the other hand, love the fact that beauty companies are chipping in to help promote breast cancer awareness on a bigger scale.

However, let's take a closer look at Breast Awareness Month. The keyword is essentially AWARENESS. We may be easily sidelined by various shopping promotions and beauty give-aways through beauty blogs or to even second-guess the real intentions of companies selling pink products. But, the real truth is, as long as these pink product promotions or the mere mention of the pink ribbon in Beauty Tyrant or any other beauty blog reminds you to take your mammogram or a health check, then it is totally worth it in the end.


I would like to end this post with a fantastic video for Breast Cancer Awareness by Total Beauty - Total Cure Campaign. Enjoy!