Raising awarness for Prostate and testicular cancer. For the month of November men worldwide are growing out a mustache to help raise money and awarness. All donations go to Livestrong and Men's health to help find a cure. Some quick facts.
The average life expectancy for men is five years less than women (presently 77 years old compared to 82).
1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 3 women will be.
Evidence suggests that about a third of the 571,950 cancer deaths expected to occur will be related to obesity, physical inactivity, poor nutrition and thus could be prevented.
1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
240,890 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed and 33,720 men will die.
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in American males between the ages of 15 and 34.
8,290 men will be diagnosed with the disease and 350 will die.
Smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths and 87% of lung cancer deaths
An estimated 115,060 men will be diagnosed with lung cancer and 85,600 men will die from the disease.
While not as common, men can get breast cancer. About 2,140 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among men and about 450 men will die from the disease
The most common cancer in the US, skin cancer strikes 1 in 5 Americans.
An estimated 43,890 men will be diagnosed with skin cancer and 8,080 men will die from the disease.
An estimated 13 million adult men over the age of 20 in the US have diabetes- and a third do not know it.
Approximately 50 million men and women in the US have high blood pressure- almost 30 per cent of them do not know it.
About 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure, and blood pressure tends to rise with age.
1 in 8 men who suffer from mental illness actually seek help (inspire.org)
Four times as many men commit suicide compared with women
24% of men are less likely to go to the doctor compared to women

I have a profile set up if you guys want to donate Movember United States - Home

Any contribution is a big help, getting healthy, getting regular check-ups, and donations everything is good!

 

i found out about this about a week too late. i'll be doing this next year. i'm usually clean shaven but i'm the type that will get "randomly" checked at the airport if i don't shave for two days.

 

Yea ive been hearing that alot. I think the prospect of having a mustache is soo unseen with the younger folk, that it does add to its attraction to it. Great word of mouth or shall I say word of mustache hahaha. Well still not too late to donate

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Morning bump...closing in on the end of the month

 

Last day GUYS!

 

Hey man, I participated in this as well! Movember United States - Home