💖The History of Get In Touch💖
Everything changed for Mary Ann Wasil on February 4th, 2004. The moment she felt a lump on her left breast, she knew life was about to take her on a journey she never expected.
After processing her cancer diagnosis, it was time to sit down with her daughters and offer a lesson. No one ever taught Mary Ann how to perform a breast exam, but she would make sure her daughters were informed.
Once her daughters learned the proper technique for a self-breast exam, it was time for the rest of the world's daughters to learn.
🌸🌸🌸The Daisy Wheel 🌸🌸🌸
Mary Ann, along with a team of medical professionals, designed the Daisy Wheel to save lives. The wheel is available as a physical product to distribute to students and as a free app.
It elaborates on the eight essential steps of a breast self-exam. Imagining your breasts as a daisy, you use different amounts of pressure and doctor-approved methods to search for anything out of the ordinary, such as lumps or bumps.
Routine breast exams are the most reliable way to find cancer early and get treatment before the disease grows.
💕Fast Facts💕
- Hundreds of thousands of women will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2021
- In 2009, the Get In Touch Girls' Program opened worldwide.
- To date, over 1 million students across 34 countries have participated in the Daisy Wheel Program.
- In 2016, Mary Ann's daughter Betsy took over the foundation to continue her mother's work.
💗Do Your Part💗
Mary Ann passed away in 2016, but you can advance her legacy by practicing the methods she wanted every girl in the world to know.
The most important thing you can do to help is to spread the word! Conversion around women's breast health can be hard to talk about, but knowledge is power. Sit down with your mother, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, or any woman in your life and ask if she knows how to perform a breast self-exam.
Using the Get In Touch Toolkit, show the women in your life how they spot Breast Cancer to stop Breast Cancer!
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