With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.

Conventional wisdom suggests women really don't need to worry about mammograms or breast cancer until they're 40 or unless there's a family history. But statistics tell us that 85 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a family history, which is why it's so important for all women to start asking for and getting a high-quality CBE every year.

My mother had a bout with cancer. I can't fight the fight for her, but this event is a way I can come out and give back to her.