Oct. 8, 2006
 
Piedmont Entrepreneur Promoting Breast Cancer Awareness
 
By HNN Staff
 
Piedmont, WV (HNN) – Christina Nolan, owner of Personalways™ is temporarily putting business on hold to participate in an online event designed to bring awareness of breast cancer to work at home moms all across the country and the globe.
 
This month-long event is taking place on InternetBasedMoms.com, a community of work at home moms who network and share resources to build their online businesses. In October 2006, this community is banding together to bring awareness of breast cancer and raise funds for breast cancer charities. The event includes breast cancer information, resources and stories of inspirational moms who have battled breast cancer. Featured Fundraisers include the Women’s Power Summit efforts and a number of mom entrepreneurs who are donating a generous portion of their sales to select breast cancer charities.
 
Nolan is personally contributing to this event by donating 15% of all sales to the National Breast Cancer Foundation and $5.00 per item from their personalized Breast Cancer Awareness apparel.
 
Despite the growing awareness of breast cancer, there are still women who do not take advantage of early detection of breast cancer at all and others who do not get screening mammograms and clinical breast exams at regular intervals.
 
According to the organization, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), “If all women age 40 and older took advantage of early detection methods – mammography plus clinical breast exam – breast cancer death rates would drop much further, up to 30 percent. The key to mammography screening is that it be done routinely – once is not enough.”
 
Says Nolan, “My family and I have seen, first hand, the heartbreaking effects of Breast Cancer. It is my hope that women everywhere could learn of the importance of early detection before it is too late. Personalways™ is doing everything we can to help.”
 
Personalways™ can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.personalways.com. Full Breast Cancer Awareness Event details can be found at http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/breast-cancer-awareness/fundraising-gifts.html