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Gillette will partner with Major League Baseball to raise awareness among their millions of fans.

Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Prostate Cancer Foundation is the world's largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research. The PCF has a single goal: To find better treatments and a cure for recurrent prostate cancer. Gillette will sponsor the 2006 Home Run Challenge, in which fans make a monetary pledge for each home run hit during select Major League Baseball games in the week leading up to Father's Day.

For more information about the Prostate Cancer Foundation, please visit their Web site: www.prostatecancerfoundation.org


		What you need to know when you have been diagnosed

		What you need to know when your spouse/partner has been diagnosed

		What you need to know when your friend/ co-worker has been diagnosed


		One in six American men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes.

		Men are one-third more likely to develop prostate cancer than women are to develop breast cancer.

		Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in the United States.

		Nearly three-quarters of men and women think that breast cancer is more common than prostate cancer.

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