This Women’s History Month, Join BCRF’s Efforts to Eradicate Breast Cancer
By Jordanne Laurito
We are excited to announce that the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) has joined Streamlabs Charity! Supporting and uplifting women includes pushing forward for advances in medical diagnoses and treatments for diseases that disproportionately impact women.
Today, breast cancer is the world’s most commonly diagnosed cancer, with 2.3 million new cases annually. Through research, we now know that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. We also know that every 15 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
This Women’s History Month, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation invites streamers, gamers, and content creators to join in the mission to end breast cancer. As the highest-rated breast cancer organization in the United States, BCRF invests your donations in ideas that turn into action — and progress.
Since 1993, BCRF-supported investigators have been deeply involved in every major advance in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, metastasis, and survivorship. The generosity of BCRF’s supporters has funded more than 14 million hours of research, bringing us all closer to prevention and cure. This includes:
- A deeper knowledge about the origins of cancer than ever before.
- The discovery that breast cancer is not just one, but many diseases.
- Grasping the role that genetics plays in breast cancer.
- How lifestyle influences breast cancer risk.
- Addressing the unacceptable disparities in diagnoses and treatments for women of color.
- More efficient breast cancer treatments.
- A better understanding of how to harness our own body’s immune system to fight cancer.
- Life after breast cancer, and the issues facing survivors.
- Learning more about why cancers spread or return.
Start a Fundraising Campaign for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation today!
How You Can Help:
Create a Streamlabs fundraiser during Women’s History Month (or any time of the year), and by doing so you contribute to BCRF-funded research across five continents, all working to dramatically improve diagnosis, prevention, metastasis, and treatment of breast cancer for people everywhere.
You and your community have the ability to generate a deep and tangible impact when fundraising for BCRF.
- $50 funds 1 hour of research.
- $100 funds 5 liquid biopsy collection kits for a clinical trial.
- $500 funds one patient’s DNA sequencing in a BCRF-supported lab.
- $2,500 funds one patient’s enrollment in a BCRF-supported clinical trial.
If you are unable to stream, but you want to contribute to the efforts to end breast cancer during this Women’s History Month, you can donate now at StreamlabsCharity.com, and 100% of donations received will be directed to BCRF’s lifesaving research.
If you’d like to learn more about what BCRF is doing to rid the world of breast cancer, you can visit their website here. For conversation starters, key statistics, and downloadable assets for your stream, check out this resource page.
Breast cancer is a complex disease with no simple solution. Every diagnosis is unique and puts lives at risk. We must stop breast cancer in its tracks, and research is the answer.
Helpful resources
- Start fundraising for BCRF!
- How to link your Streamlabs alerts to your fundraising campaign.
- Download the Overlays
- Install the Charity Alerts into Streamlabs Desktop.
- Add the Charity Alerts into other broadcasting software
- Learn more at bcrf.org
- Join the Streamlabs Discord server
