At their Oct. 22 football game in Autzen Stadium, the University of Oregon football players donned Nike-designed Breast Cancer Awareness uniforms — featuring black helmets with pink wings and black jerseys with pink numerals — to raise awareness about breast cancer.
The university auctioned off 20 of the special-edition helmets via the sports apparel site Fanatics to support breast cancer research at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Auction bidding closed Oct. 24, and in total, raised $66,300 for breast cancer research at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
'To our team, a victory is ending cancer as we know it'
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian Druker, M.D., shared his appreciation in a video acknowledging the donation.
"To our team, a victory is ending cancer as we know it," says Druker. "When you donate to our research, you support a world-class team of cancer researchers and care providers. Through innovative, collaborative research and education, we provide prevention, detection, and care — one person at a time. On behalf of our institute, I want to extend our sincere thanks to the University of Oregon and everyone who generously supports our goal to detect cancer as early as possible — when it is most treatable."
According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in her lifetime. Visit ohsu.edu/pinkspot
