| October 2009 is being acknowledged as the | | | | organization by the name of Susan Komen |
| breast cancer awareness month in the US. The | | | | foundation are planning to organize a 'mom's day |
| folded pink ribbon has been chosen as the symbol | | | | out'in collaboration with students from Elmira free |
| of breast cancer awareness. The White House will | | | | Academy and Southside High School. |
| be decorated in a dash of pink this weekend, | | | | Meanwhile, on October 16, a band of five girls |
| keeping up with the spirit of awareness. It has | | | | performed at Amigos Cantina in Canada to raise |
| been planned that pink ribbons will be hung on the | | | | funds and make people aware of the menace of |
| columns outside the White House's front doors | | | | breast cancer. The Saskatchewan date of Babes |
| and will stay there till the weekend. On Friday, | | | | for Breasts, a national all-female fundraising tour |
| October 24th an event in this regard was hosted | | | | brought the regional female artists together in a |
| by the US first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, | | | | bid to raise the awareness. |
| the wife of the US vice president. The event was | | | | In another important news, Dr. Sunita Chauhan, an |
| attended by breast cancer survivors and the | | | | Indian robotics-scientist has unveiled a completely |
| awareness advocates. | | | | non-invasive surgery process for the treatment |
| Mrs Obama, donning the pink emblem on her | | | | of breast cancer. This process, unveiled on |
| dress, emphasized that getting sick should not | | | | October 25th use robots known as FUSBOTS to |
| mean that you are going bankrupt. She also | | | | perform surgeries on stage two breast cancer. |
| emphasized that easier insurance policies will help | | | | Dr. Chauhan has invented these FUSBOTS with |
| cancer patients in their fight against the disease. | | | | assistance from a group of 20 students from |
| Incidentally, Michelle Obama used to work as a | | | | Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. |
| hospital administrator in Chicago. Jill Biden, too, had | | | | The clinical trials on animals have shown |
| earlier organized an awareness program in | | | | satisfactory results. Dr. Chauhan says, the human |
| Delaware. In USA, every year about 210,000 | | | | trials will begin after the certification procedure is |
| women are diagnosed with breast cancer. An | | | | completed. |