National No Bra Day is observed annually on October 13. This is a day to leave your bra at home.
National No Bra Day is meant to promote
breast cancer awareness and to help raise money for research. Many
women who have survived breast cancer are unable to go without a bra as
they need it to hold their prosthesis after surgery. October is Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, and National No Bra Day should serve as a
reminder for all women to be screened for breast cancer.
Every year hundreds of thousands new cases of breast cancer occur in the
United States alone, with approximately 250,000 of them being invasive
forms of breast
cancer, and an additional 2,600 cases being found in
men. No Bra Day encourages women everywhere to go without their bra to
raise awareness for breast cancer and the challenges that those with it
faces. If you know someone who has been affected by Breast Cancer or
just want to help continue the fight against it, No Bra Day is an
opportunity to help those around you know that the fight is ongoing!
Although a controversial event in the eyes of some, National No Bra
Day further aims to raise awareness of breast cancer during October.
Using the hashtag
#nobraday
on social media and encouraging women to go braless for a 24-hour
period on the 13th October, National No Bra Day aims to raise awareness
of the importance of knowing how to carry out breast self-examinations,
being able to recognise the symptoms of breast cancer and encouraging
women to partake in regular breast cancer screening.
The whole of October is
Breast Cancer Awareness month, with October 14th also being the “
Big Pink” – an event encouraging people to organise events and wear pink to raise money and awareness for breast cancer care.
History of No Bra Day
No Bra Day was established
to both raise awareness of breast cancer and its prevalence in today’s
society, as well as to drive opportunities for fund-raising to help keep
the research moving. 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their
lives and have to battle a disease that can, at worst, be lethal. But
outside of just its lethality, it also has the possibility of impacting a
woman’s view of herself, her ability to breastfeed, and can result in
surgeries that include mastectomies. Breasts are of the primary
identifiers of what makes a woman, visually, a woman, and having to have
them removed in the fight against breast cancer can lead to self-image
issues and depression.
So why is it that women everywhere choose
not to wear a bra to raise awareness of this horrible disease? Women who
have been through a battle with breast cancer often have to wear a
prosthesis to hide the fact that they’ve had a breast or breasts
removed, and are unable to go without a bra as a result. By spending the
day without a bra you can raise awareness and help to prevent other
women from having to go through this experience.
So on October 13th, remember to leave the lingerie at home, or take part on social media to help raise awareness for breast cancer research,
If you would like to help raise awareness of this event, please use the hashtag
#nobraday or to raise funds directly for Breast Cancer Care, you can donate through t
heir website here.
For more information on breast self-examination please visit this page.
https://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/information-support/have-i-got-breast-cancer/signs-symptoms-breast-cancer/checking-your-breasts
For further information on breast cancer screening, please visit this page:
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/type/breast-cancer/about/screening/who-is-screened-for-breast-cancer
