October Awareness:

• Health Literacy Month
• Liver Awareness Month
• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• National PA Week (Oct. 6-12)
• Health Education Week (Oct 16-20)
• Ostomy Awareness Day (Oct 7)
• World Thrombosis Day (Oct 13)
• Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October 13)
• National Mammography Day (October 20)

Attached is the October Cancer Awareness flyer.

Additional Resources:

American Cancer Society always has good cancer information

Breast Cancer Awareness

Bright Pink

CDC Breast Cancer Awareness

Metastatic Breast Cancer Network

National Breast Cancer Foundation

Patient Resource

The Susan G, Komen Foundation

Young Survival Coalition                                                       

Health Literacy

Health Literacy Month

Health Literacy and Patient Safety (American Medical Association)

Liver Awareness

American Liver Foundation

CDC

Ostomy Awareness

American Cancer Society: Ostomies

American College of Surgeons - Ostomy Skills

American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons

Coloplast Ostomy

Convatec Ostomy

Hollister Ostomy

Ostomy 211

Shield Healthcare: Ostomy Life

United Ostomy Association of America

Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses Society

World Thrombosis Day

Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

National Blood Clot Alliance: Stop the Clot

This is Serious

World Thrombosis Day