October 09, 2009
Make a Promise and Win Prizes
As most of us know, getting a mammogram is one of the most important things a woman can do to protect her health. Unfortunately, more and more women are not getting the message. The percentage of women over 40 who reported having a mammogram has fallen from 70 percent to 66 percent, a 4 % decline nationally. That’s why Seattle Cancer Care Alliance is launching Make a Mammogram Promise.
The goal of this campaign is to increase the public’s awareness of the importance of getting annual mammograms and to get as many women as possible in the Northwest to make a promise to get a mammogram. The campaign is designed to engage the public in an innovative and fun way about a subject that people generally avoid.
The campaign will feature a web site, www.mammogrampromise.org , where women can make a promise to get a mammogram and become eligible to win a daily random drawing for a glassybaby® votive. The site will also feature information about mammography, mammography centers in the greater Puget Sound area, and a blog.
Those who make a Mammogram Promise on the web site may choose to spread the word to their friends and loved ones and become eligible to win one of four grand prizes of six glassybaby votives. The Mammogram Promise web site will track all of the promises made.
The Mammogram Promise Campaign begins on October 1st and runs through the month of October. Nearly thirty prominent women from the Pacific Northwest, including Washington governor, Chris Gregoire, have made their mammogram promise. Please join them in making your promise today.
Employees of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and UW Medicine may participate in this public awareness campaign, however, in order to be eligible to win prizes, employees MUST log into the www.mammogrampromise.org website using their EMPLOYEE e‐mail. For more information, please see the official contest rules. Employee promises will be included in the general accumulation of promises, but prizes will be awarded in a separate contest. Employees will be competing only with other employees and not in the general contest open to the public.