Published on December 5, 2009
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December 5, 2009
MEDIA CONTACT:
Apoorva Sabnis-Stull
703-837-3687
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ALEXANDRIA, VA — Prevent Cancer Alex Baker of Keedysville, MD is the winner of the Pink Vespa LX 50 in the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Screen Your Boobs Sweepstakes. The Prevent Cancer Foundation partnered with Lifetime TV and Vespa USA to help promote screening guidelines and breast cancer education awareness through this unique campaign.
Thanks to Vespa USA’s generous donation, the Screen Your Boobs Sweepstakes enabled the public to enter for a chance to win the pink Vespa, while educating women of all ages about breast cancer and encourage them to get screened. Screen Your Boobs Sweepstakeswinner Alex Baker will claim her very own pink Vespa this month.
The Prevent Cancer Foundation is one of 15 exclusive partners selected by Lifetime Television because of the Foundation’s extraordinary cancer prevention work and education. The Foundation continues to fight cancer with efforts to detect the disease early – and stop it before it strikes.
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About The Prevent Cancer Foundation
The Prevent Cancer Foundation was founded in 1985. Today, it is one of the nation’s leading health organizations and has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence. Through healthy lifestyle choices, you can reduce your risk of breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, oral, prostate, skin and testicular cancers.
Since its inception the Prevent Cancer Foundation has provided more than $113 million in support of cancer prevention and early detection research, education and community outreach programs across the country. The Foundation’s peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to nearly 500 scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. This research has been pivotal in developing a body of knowledge that is the basis for important cancer prevention and early detection strategies. For more information, please visit www.preventcancer.org.
