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💡 Cancer rates are rising—and younger women are increasingly part of the story.
So what are we missing?
⚠️ Signals across prevention
⚠️ Earlier diagnosis
⚠️ Opportunities for detection
And what needs to change now?
Join WHAM for a conversation focused on exactly that.
We’ll cover:
🔸 Why cancers are still being missed
🔸 How sex differences impact risk + diagnosis
🔸 What it takes to move from reactive → proactive screening
🔸 Where research + investment can drive real change
🎤 Hear from leading experts shaping what comes next
📅 May 19 | 1–2 PM ET
🔗 Register in bio
Because if the trends are changing—our approach has to change too.
#WHAMNow #3Not30 #WomensHealth #CancerAwareness #EarlyDetection
💔We’ve normalized women’s pain.
We’ve normalized missed diagnoses.
We’ve normalized delays in care.
And it shows up everywhere:
💡Hashimoto`s thyroiditis is about 7–10x more common in women than men
💡ADHD in girls is often missed in childhood because symptoms present differently than boys
💡 ~80% of women experience menopause symptoms—many don’t receive adequate care or information
💡 ~25% of women with an autoimmune disease develop a second condition
💡 By age 50, up to 70–80% of women develop fibroids—yet many are told pain and heavy bleeding are “normal”
This isn’t random.
It’s a pattern.
And we can’t fix what we keep normalizing.
It’s time to change the standard.
✨Learn more at whamnow.org
#WomensHealth #WomensHealthData #WomensHealthFacts #WHAMNow #3Not30
And the list goes on…📝
WHAM is here to change that—by driving research and investment to transform women’s lives.
Learn more at whamnow.org
#WomensHealth #WHAMNow
Things you should know about the health of half the population:
⭐ Women are 2–8x more likely to tear their ACL
⭐ Women make up ~60% of rare disease patients
⭐ Women with asthma are about 2x more likely to be hospitalized and die from asthma than men
⭐ Women wait ~16 minutes longer than men in the ER for pain-related conditions
⭐ Rheumatoid arthritis affects women about 3x more often than men
These aren’t small differences.
They shape how health is experienced—every day.
Understanding them is how we move toward better care, better treatment, and better outcomes.
🔗 Learn more at whamnow.org/the-report
#WomensHealth #WomensHealthData #WomensHealthFacts #WHAMNow #3Not30
1 in 10 women live with endometriosis.
And for many, it takes 7–10 years to finally have a name for what they’re experiencing.
That’s years of not knowing.
Years of being told it’s something else.
Years of trying to push through something that isn’t understood.
⌛ That delay reflects how much more there is to learn and how much faster we can move when we prioritize it.
✨ At WHAM, we’re focused on closing that gap, by driving investment into women’s health research, advancing data, and accelerating the science needed to improve outcomes.
Because when we invest in women’s health, we unlock answers sooner and change what that experience looks like for millions of women.
🔗 whamnow.org
#Endometriosis #WomensHealth #WHAMNow #3Not30
Cancer trends are shifting📈
And younger women are at the forefront.
🔹Lung cancer rates are rising among young women even as they fall for men.
🔹Colorectal cancer is now one of the leading causes of cancer incidence and death in younger women.
🔹About 10% of all new breast cancer cases in the U.S. occur in women younger than 45.
Join leading cancer experts at the WHAM Virtual Roundtable to explore sex differences and address what is driving rising rates.
📅 May 19th, 2026
⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM ET
🔗 Register now: link in bio
#WomensHealth #Cancer #BreastCancer #ColorectalCancer #LungCancer #WomensCancer #WHAMNow #3Not30
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Most cancer studies still default to male models, overlooking critical sex differences in how cancers start, spread, and respond to therapy. Lung cancer now kills more women than breast, ovarian, and cervical cancers combined, and rates are soaring among young, non-smoking women. Boosting sex-based cancer research will reveal why—and lead to breakthroughs in screening, care, and survival. Help us accelerate that work.
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