Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Events In Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, AL — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and several local businesses and venues are joining the fight against what is one of the leading killers among women in the U.S.

One in 8 U.S. women (about 12 percent) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women. In 2019, it's estimated that about 30 percent of newly diagnosed cancers in women will be breast cancers.

In fact, for women in the U.S., breast cancer death rates are higher than those for any other cancer, besides lung cancer.

Want to get involved in the fight? Here are some ways to do so just by visiting local businesses:

ARC Realty Blue (Birmingham): ARC Realty Blue will donate $25 to the BCRFA for each new property listing that happens during October.

Brighton Collectibles (The Summit): Through October 31, Brighton Collectibles at The Summit will be selling two bracelets created to promote breast cancer awareness and $10 from each bracelet sale will be donated to the UAB Angel Squad. Every Saturday in October, UAB Angel Squad members will be in the store from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. to talk about the importance of mammograms and early detection of breast cancer.

Buffalo Wild Wings (All locations): B-dubs is donating 20 percent of all sales from the Gardendale and Tuscaloosa Buffalo Wild Wings locations to the BCRFA on Oct. 7.

Cahaba Brewing Co. (Avondale): Cahaba Brewing Company is going pink with a tart cherry and hibiscus Berliner Weisse specially brewed for the month. A percentage of proceeds will go towards the BCRFA.

Cowfish (The Summit): Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar is offering a pink martini, called the TataTini, throughout the month of October and is donating $2 from each one to the BCRFA.

Full Moon Bar-B-Que (Birmingham): Half-moon cookie tins are going pink during the month of October, and $3 from every pink tin of cookies will be donated to the BCRFA. Full Moon will also donate 25 percent of proceeds from food sales from the Southside location on October 11 and October 18.

Ghost Train Brewery (Birmingham): Ghost Train Brewing Company will donate a part of sales from the Kaleidoscope Kettle Sour to the BCRFA throughout the month.

Jim ‘N Nick’s (Birmingham): UAB’s Angel Squad members will be in Jim ‘N Nick’s restaurants across Birmingham Oct. 4 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. to promote breast cancer awareness and the importance of mammograms. They will also be selling restaurant gift cards for $10, and half of the proceeds will support breast cancer patients at The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital. Gift cards will be sold through the end of November.

Renasant Bank Fundraising Campaign (Birmingham): Renasant Bank branches across the state will hold fundraisers for the BCRFA and accept donations all month long. Plus, Renasant Mortgage will donate $50 for every mortgage closed in October.

Rojo (Highland Park): Rojo Birmingham will donate 10 percent of all food and drink orders to the BCRFA from 5 p.m. until midnight Oct. 29.

Texas Roadhouse (Pelham): Patrons at Texas Roadhouse can choose to donate money toward gift cards that will be given to the BCRFA to support its events and activities during October.