Plumbing/heating industry supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Each year, approximately 70,000 men and women ages 15 to 39 are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, and breast cancer accounts for roughly 15% cancers in this age group, according to a report by the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Progress Review Group.

Rheem and its racing partners, Richard Childress Racing and Eddie Sharp Racing, are commemorating National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by Chasing the Cure- a charitable program benefiting the Young Survival Coalition. The program will feature special pink and black paint schemes on the No. 29 Rheem Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the No. 33 Rheem Chevrolet Silverado in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, a video contest for Rheem Racing Facebook fans and Rheem Chasing the Cure-themed merchandise.

More than 230 employees of EMCOR Group’s Southern Industrial Constructors subsidiary and those of its client GE Aviation donnedEMCOR Pink Hard Hats and assembled into the shape of a giant pink ribbonthe international symbol of breast cancer awareness, in a "Call to Action" in support of Breast Cancer screening and awareness. The event was part of EMCOR's "Protect Yourself. Get Screened Today." Campaign.

These are just two examples of what the plumbing and heating industry is doing to make people aware of breast cancer - its prevention as well as its treatment. To find out more about breast cancer screenings, visitSusan G. Komen for the CureandBreastcancer.org.

Kelly Faloon was a former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical as well as the BNP Media Plumbing Group’s Integrated Content Development Specialist. She also was a former editor of the Radiant Comfort Guide the Radiant & Hydronics Report — both official publications of the Radiant Professionals Alliance — and twice-monthly Radiant & Hydronics eNews, an enewsletter for anyone interested in the world of heating with hot water.

Her editorial specialties included women in plumbing, recruiting for the trades, green construction techniques, water conservation, water treatment, hydronic heating, radiant heating and cooling, snow melt, solar thermal and geothermal.

After a 3½-year stint at sister publication Supply House Times, Faloon joined the PM staff in December 2001 as senior editor. She was named PM’s managing editor in 2006 and editor in 2013.

Previously, she spent nearly 10 years at CCH, a publishing firm specializing in business and tax law, where she wore many hats — proofreader, writer/editor for a daily tax publication, and Internal Revenue Code editor.

A native of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Faloon is a 1986 journalism graduate of Michigan State University.