Football officials change penalty flags to blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
From the WIAA:
High School football officials throughout the state of Washington will raise the profile of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month by replacing traditional yellow penalty flags with blue flags during varsity games played on September 11-13, 2008. September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America, affecting one in six men. In 2008, more than 186,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and more than 28,000 men will die from the disease. One new case occurs every 2.5 minutes and a man dies from prostate cancer every 19 minutes. It is estimated that there are more than two million American men currently living with prostate cancer.
Screening for prostate cancer can be performed in a physician’s office using two tests: the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood test and the digital rectal exam (DRE). The American Cancer Society recommends that both the PSA and DRE should be offered annually, beginning at age 50.
Men at high risk, such as African American men and men with a strong family history of one or more first-degree relatives diagnosed at an early age, should begin testing at age 45.
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