Woonsocket Middle School Raises $1,500 For Breast Cancer Awareness

For National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, Woonsocket Middle School raised more than $1,500 toward the cause, to be donated to the Breast Cancer Society.

"We have been involved in collections, walkathons, dress down days for students," said WMS Principal Robert Picard.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year, more than 200,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 American women will die from breast cancer.

Check our list of breast cancer awarness events and opportunities to fight the disease.

If you've been busy helping to raise awareness of breast cancer this month, or raising money for research to fight it, let us know and add your own photo to this article.