October is breast cancer awareness month, designed to promote widespread education about one of the most common cancer diagnoses. In fact, it is the most common cancer in women, or people assigned female at birth, with around 56,000 cases diagnosed annually in the UK. Therefore, each year during October fundraising projects take place such as the ‘wear it pink’ campaign where people don pink clothing or a pink ribbon to symbolise solidarity with breast cancer patients and to raise money for cancer research.
