File #: 19-6322    Version: 1 Name: A RESOLUTION OF THE COOK COUNTY WOMEN’S CAUCUS HONORING BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR MELISSA BORATYN, BRIGHT PINK AND RECOGNIZING OCTOBER AS BREAST CANCER AWAREMNESS MONTH IN COOK COUNTY
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 10/18/2019 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 10/23/2019 Final action:
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION COOK COUNTY WOMEN'S CAUCUS HONORING BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR MELISSA BORATYN, BRIGHT PINK AND RECOGNIZING OCTOBER AS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH IN COOK COUNTY WHEREAS, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and WHEREAS, in the United States, more than 268,000 women and approximately 2,600 men are diagnosed with breast cancer annually; and WHEREAS, for women in the United States, breast cancer death rates are higher than those for any other cancer, besides lung cancer; and WHEREAS, a woman's risk of breast cancer nearly doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer; and WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn, a Chicago resident who was diagnosed with Breast cancer at age 23 and now, 8 years later continues her battle with metastatic breast cancer, and WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn met her husband Jimmy Boratyn while undergraduates at Loyola University Chicago, and WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn and her hus...
Sponsors: BRIDGET GAINER, TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), ALMA E. ANAYA, BRIDGET DEGNEN, DEBORAH SIMS, DONNA MILLER
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

COOK COUNTY WOMEN'S CAUCUS HONORING BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR MELISSA BORATYN, BRIGHT PINK AND RECOGNIZING OCTOBER AS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH IN COOK COUNTY

WHEREAS, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and

WHEREAS, in the United States, more than 268,000 women and approximately 2,600 men are diagnosed with breast cancer annually; and

WHEREAS, for women in the United States, breast cancer death rates are higher than those for any other cancer, besides lung cancer; and

WHEREAS, a woman's risk of breast cancer nearly doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer; and

WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn, a Chicago resident who was diagnosed with Breast cancer at age 23 and now, 8 years later continues her battle with metastatic breast cancer, and

WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn met her husband Jimmy Boratyn while undergraduates at Loyola University Chicago, and

WHEREAS, Melissa Boratyn and her husband and directing partner Jimmy Boratyn produced "Ginger the Movie" as a graduate school thesis project at DePaul University in Chicago, and

WHEREAS, at its premier in September 2018 "Ginger" won "Best in Fest" at the 10th Annual Ladies Film Festival in Beverly Hills, California; and

WHEREAS, "Ginger" was also awarded the "World Humanitarian Award" at the Queens Film Festival in New York, and

WHEREAS, after one year of winning countless additional film festival awards, "Ginger" will be released to the public to achieve it's intended goal of "Helping others"; and

WHEREAS, another champion in the fight against breast cancer is Bright Pink, founded by Lindsay Avner, who at the age of 23, became the youngest woman in the country to undergo a risk-reducing double mastectomy,; having lost her grandmother and great-grandmother to breast cancer before she was born, and watching her mother fight both breast and ovarian cancer when she was only 12; and

WHEREAS, Lindsay felt a compe...

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