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United Football League In-Stadium Initiatives Help Highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month Of Octobe

October 8, 2010 - United Football League (UFL 1) News Release


JACKSONVILLE, FL - Friday, October 7, 2010 - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month across the country, and the United Football League is doing its part to help highlight the cause in a highly visible way.

The field at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas will feature pink paint around the on-field logos when the hometown Locos take on the Omaha Nighthawks at 7pm PDT on Friday, October 8.

The end zone lettering spelling out 'Hartford' and 'Colonials' at each end of the field will be emblazoned in pink when the Colonials welcome the Florida Tuskers to Rentschler Field in East Hartford at 3pm on Saturday, October 9, replacing the team's traditional blue and white colors.

The goal post pylons for both UFL games will also be colored pink as the UFL helps in the fight against breast cancer during the month of October.

"To lend our support to the awareness and cure for breast cancer during this important month the UFL will incorporate the color pink at our October games," said UFL Commissioner MICHAEL HUYGHUE. "This weekend at our games in Las Vegas and Hartford, there will be a strong presence on the field and we will continue to help raise awareness throughout the month. There will be similar adaptations of logos, end zone painting and goal post pylons."

According to www.breastcancer.org, about one in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during the course of her lifetime. In 2010, an estimated 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 54,010 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer. In addition, about 1,970 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2010. Less than 1% of all new breast cancer cases occur in men.

However, from 1999 to 2006, breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. decreased by about two percent per year. About 39,840 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2010 from breast cancer, though death rates have been decreasing since 1991. These decreases are thought to be the result of treatment advances, earlier detection through screening, and increased awareness. In 2010, there are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.

For more on National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, please visit http://www.nbcam.org/.



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