SEATTLE, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting tonight, penalty flags
thrown by referees at high school football games throughout Washington will
be blue in color rather than the traditional yellow. The color switch is a
project to honor the late Terry Ennis, who coached football at Archbishop
Thomas J. Murphy High School in Everett. Ennis died of prostate cancer.
Another purpose of the project, which runs through Monday, is to
promote Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in September. Prostate cancer is
the most common cancer, other than skin cancers, in American men. The
American Cancer Society estimates that during 2008 about 186,320 new cases
of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. About one man in
six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, but only
one man in 35 will die of it. Prostate cancer often can be detected early
by an annual blood test and exam.
The blue-flags effort is jointly sponsored by the Washington Officials
Association, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Highline High School
football program and the Seattle Seahawks. The flags were made by Highline
players and managers; materials cost was paid for by the Hutchinson Center
and the Seahawks.
At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, our interdisciplinary teams
of world-renowned scientists and humanitarians work together to prevent,
diagnose and treat cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Our researchers,
including three Nobel laureates, bring a relentless pursuit and passion for
health, knowledge and hope to their work and to the world. For more
information, please visit http://fhcrc.org.
CONTACT
Dean Forbes
(206) 667-2896
dforbes@fhcrc.org
SOURCE Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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CONTACT:
Dean Forbes of Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, +1-206-667-2896, dforbes@fhcrc.org
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