"Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health."
The Movember Foundation was started in Australia in 2004. It is a not for profit, charitable organization that implements a month long event called Movember each year in the month of November. Movember's goal is to raise awareness around men's health issues and raises funds charities chosen by each country involved, focussing primarily on prostate cancer.
These are the facts that scared me most while I was raising my own awareness:
- Every year around 22,300 Canadian men are diagnosed with prostate cancer
- 4,300 die of the disease, making it the number one cancer threat to Canadian men
- Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Canadian men
- Treated early and effectively, prostate cancer has a cure rate of over 90%.
- 1 in 8 Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. 1 in 27 will die from it.
Canada's Movember organization is the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada (PCRFC). They are our main supporters in eliminating and preventing prostate cancer. All funds raised in Canada go straight to the PCRFC.
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