Bakes for Breast Most cancers at Edwards Brothers -Piscataquis Observer

Bakes for Breast Most cancers, the Massachusetts-based non-profit group devoted to funding breast most cancers researchers and clinicians, is proud to announce its twenty fifth anniversary in 2024 and occasion dates. These will embrace at Edwards Brothers Grocery store in Dover-Foxcroft from Friday, July 26 to Thursday, Aug.

Bakes for Breast Most cancers, the Massachusetts-based non-profit group devoted to funding breast most cancers researchers and clinicians, is proud to announce its 25^th anniversary in 2024 and occasion dates. These will embrace at Edwards Brothers Grocery store in Dover-Foxcroft from Friday, July 26 to Thursday, Aug. 1 with freshly-baked Maine whoopie pies.

Founder Carol Sneider launched this occasion and nonprofit in reminiscence of her mom who misplaced her battle with breast most cancers on the age of 43. The most effective recollections Sneider recollects have been the instances spent within the kitchen baking bread, truffles, and different candy treats.

Since its inception in 1999, Bakes for Bakes Most cancers has inspired eating places, cafés, bakeries, pastry retailers, grocery shops, and different companies providing desserts to designate one in all their candy treats throughout the weeklong occasion the place 100% of the proceeds go to Bakes for Breast Most cancers to fund breast most cancers analysis. Taking part institutions even have the chance to supply up their whole dessert roster the place 50 % of the proceeds goes again to the group. Over the past 25 years, Bakes for Breast Most cancers has raised over $2 million and over 5,000 totally different institutions have participated within the annual weeklong occasion all through Massachusetts and because it expanded into totally different areas in varied years.

“Since 1999, Bakes for Breast Most cancers has been on a mission to do its half to assist eradicate breast most cancers for good, one candy deal with at a time,” stated Sneider. “We’re proud to maintain increasing into totally different states and marquee cities, and we are going to proceed to take action in areas with thriving culinary scenes with institutions that share the identical mission as ours. Statistics on the variety of each ladies and men straight and not directly affected by breast most cancers are alarming, and we are going to proceed to do our greatest to assist scale back these numbers.” 

In response to the Nationwide Breast Most cancers Basis, 1 in 8 ladies in the US might be recognized with breast most cancers in her lifetime. In 2023, an estimated 297,790 ladies and a pair of,800 males might be recognized with invasive breast most cancers. Breast most cancers is the commonest most cancers in American ladies aside from pores and skin cancers, and it’s estimated that in 2023, roughly 30 % of all new feminine most cancers diagnoses might be breast most cancers. On common, each 2 minutes, a lady is recognized with breast most cancers in the US and roughly 15 % of ladies recognized have a household historical past of breast most cancers.

Bakes for Breast Most cancers is an annual “candy” to lift funds for breast most cancers analysis and care the place a whole bunch of eating places, bakeries, cafés, and retail retailers in 10 totally different states or areas take part by designating all gross sales of 1 particular desert, or fifty % of proceeds from their whole dessert menu, to breast most cancers care and analysis. Proceeds from the occasion profit Bakes for Breast Most cancers, Inc., a nonprofit breast most cancers group devoted to funding breast most cancers researchers and clinicians. For extra data, please go to www.bakesforbreastcancer.org.