October has been Breast Cancer Awareness Month since the 1980s.
The first effort to bring public attention to breast cancer was a week-long event in October 1985, organised by the American Cancer Society and the Imperial Chemical Industries Pharmaceuticals, which became part of pharmaceutical multinational AstraZeneca.
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