The document discusses the NFL's efforts to support breast cancer awareness through dedicating the month of October each season to raise awareness and funds. It outlines several practices the NFL uses like field designs with pink accents, lighting up landmarks in pink, and auctioning game-worn pink accessories with proceeds going to cancer research. The goal is to leverage the NFL's large audience and fan base to help spread awareness and support for fighting breast cancer.
#3: An estimated 182,800 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2000.Approximately 42,200 deaths will occur in women from breast cancer in 2000.One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.Breast cancer risk increases with age andeverywoman is at risk.Every13minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.Seventy-seven percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.You arenever too youngto develop breast cancer! Breast Self-Exam should begin by the age of twenty.