It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and people around the country are doing amazing programs to raise awareness and funding. One woman is raising awareness in Dallas. Senior Fire Prevention Officer Shanetra Brown, a two-time breast cancer survivor, is heading up the Dallas Fire-Rescue annual Care Enough to Wear Pink campaign.
In 2008 she was first diagnosed with breast cancer and in 2012 she was diagnosed again. Now, the campaign she is spearheading calls on fire departments across the country to wear pink attire for the month of October. In Dallas, the fire fighters wore pink uniform shirts from the beginning of October until the 19th.
As Brown explained, “If you feel something that’s different in your body, go to your doctor. Don’t let fear paralyze you. The earlier they can find it, the better the treatment, the better the outcome.”