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Breast cancer nonprofit spreads awareness with laughs and humor
Check your boobies.
That’s the advice Elizabeth Crouch gave to almost 150 female BU students at Jacob Sleeper Auditorium on September 18, 2012. Crouch is an instructor with Seattle-based Check Your Boobies, a non-profit organization that aims to educate women on breast health and self-examination.
“Touch those puppies!” she says.
She spoke to an audience of mostly Gamma Phi Beta sorority sisters, who hosted the event.
Crouch was one of three women representing the Seattle-based nonprofit organization CYB, which was founded in 2003 to educate women about self-awareness and early detection.
Crouch discussed the importance of younger women becoming more self-reliable, proactive, and persistent.
“Young women need education…[and] to realize the power of their own voice,” Crouch says. “Then, that’s when they become their best advocate.”
Kayla Driscoll also spoke to the group, which was organized by Gamma Phi Beta’s BU chapter and included many of the sorority’s members. Driscoll is CYB’s college outreach coordinator.
CYB mostly organized programs “at private and home parties [in] low income” areas eight years ago. Now, CYB is now touring across the nation to college campuses, where there are “more people who are more interested [in the issue] at an early age.”
Debra Minkove was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 at the age of 30 and discussed her survival story. She reassured that cancer is “not necessarily a death sentence [and] you can definitely survive [but] I wanted to let people know that cancer can happen at any age.”
Last year, Gamma Phi Beta held a small event for their members but their philanthropy chair Shani Gilmour (SAR ’14) wanted to invite CYB back for a bigger event.
“We enjoyed their light-hearted ways of spreading the word about the dangers of breast cancer and the importance of early screening [so much] we decided to make them a key part of our [BU’s] annual Breast Cancer Awareness Week,” Gilmour says.
To emphasize the importance of early detection, a video premiere showed a BU alumna diagnosed with breast cancer in her senior year at age 21.
The images shook Kimberly Kaufhold (CAS ’13). “I’m definitely guilty of thinking myself too young to get breast cancer, so this was a rude awakening,” she says.
While Kaufhold liked how animated the speakers were, she thought the event “dragged on a bit too long.”
CYB is among a group of organizations that are using humor and direct language to shine a spotlight on serious issues such as Stand Up to Cancer and the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Marion County, Florida, where participants can choose to wear pink bras outside of their clothing.
Other students liked how the speakers cracked jokes during the hour-long event. “The speakers were engaging and seriously hilarious!” says Colette Johnson (SMG ’14).
Priscilla Yu (CAS ’15) appreciated hearing the shocking facts and statistics. “I learned one in just eight women get breast cancer,” she says.
Gilmour said she hopes that after attending Tuesday’s event, students are more comfortable talking about breast cancer.
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