2001/09/25 City Council ResolutionResolution No. 2001- 197
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Rohnert Park
,Supporting
October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
WHEREAS, the Month of October is proclaimed as National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month; and
WHEREAS, Breast Cancer strikes I in every 8 American women and, this year, more
than 185, 000 women in the United States will learn for the first time that they have breast
cancer; and
WHEREAS, this deadly disease causes more deaths in women under age 55 than any
other form of cancer and more than 44, 000 American women will lose their lives; and
WHEREAS, there is good news in that Breast Cancer has a very high cure rate (97%)
if diagnosed early; and
WHEREAS, mammography, an `x -ray" of the breast, is recognized as the single most
effective method of detecting breast changes that may be cancer long before physical symptoms
can be seen or felt.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Rohnert
Park that it does hereby support and proclaim the month of October as National Breast
Cancer Awareness Month in Rohnert Park and urges all women to get the facts about
mammography.
DULYAND REGULARLYADOPTED this 25`h day of September, Z
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FLORES: AYE REILLY: ABSENT
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VIDAK- MARTINEZ: AYE
MACKENZIE: AYE
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