Dallas Cowboys, NFL will go pink for breast cancer awareness
The Dallas Cowboys will host their Breast Cancer Awareness game on Sunday against Cincinnati at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Kickoff is 3:25 p.m.
The Cowboys will host approximately 100 survivors and co-survivors at the game to participate in a special halftime show and form a human awareness ribbon on field during the performance
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the NFL and American Cancer Society have teamed up on a A Crucial Catch , a nationwide breast-cancer awareness campaign.
Football fields around the league on various weekends will feature pink ribbon shield stencils on both the 25-yard lines and special balls with pink ribbon logs that will be used for each game. The footballs and other pink game-worn items such as gloves and cleats will be auctioned off via NFL Auction. There will be pink merchandise sold at retail and via the NFL Auction website.
The NFL does not profit from the sale or auction of pink merchandise. Instead, the money raised supports the CHANGE initiative, the American Cancer Society’s Community Health Advocates, implementing National Grants for Empowerment and Equity (CHANGE) program. This program provides outreach and breast cancer screenings.
Breast cancer knowledge
Here are 10 things people should keep in mind for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, provided by the Joan Katz Breast Center at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth:
1. The Joan Katz Breast Center at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth treated over 400 patients in 2015 for breast cancer-related diagnosis.
2. Self-examination and mammography save lives. You should start getting exams in your teens and yearly mammograms when you are 40 years old.
3. It’s important to know whether you have dense breast tissue. Women with dense breast tissue have a breast cancer risk that is 1.2 to 2 times that of women with average breast density. Dense breast tissue can also make mammograms less accurate.
4. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40 to 55.
5. Men can get breast cancer, too. Nearly 2,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer occur in men each year.
6. Smoking has been linked to a higher risk of breast cancer, especially in women who start smoking before they have their first child.
7. Cancer is not just a hereditary disease. Eighty-five percent of all breast cancer diagnoses have no family history.
8. Breast cancer incidence rates are highest in non-Hispanic white women, followed by African American women and are lowest among Asian/Pacific Islander women.
9. Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and exercising 150 minutes a week might help decrease your risk for breast cancer.
10. Limiting alcohol intake will help reduce your chance of developing breast cancer. Women who have two to five drinks daily have about 1.5 times the risk of women who don’t drink alcohol.
This story was originally published October 4, 2016 at 9:17 AM with the headline "Dallas Cowboys, NFL will go pink for breast cancer awareness."