Miami Ohio Cancer Awareness Helmets

The Miami of Ohio football team will wear their special cancer awareness helmets this week. Each player’s helmet features a colored ribbon of their choice symbolizing how they have been affected by cancer.

Overall, 34 players selected pink to signify those affected by breast cancer, while 12 picked blue (colon cancer and esophageal cancer). Other colors include: 10 yellow/gray (child brain cancer), 10 orange (kidney cancer and leukemia), nine yellow (bladder cancer, sarcoma/bone cancer), eight picked purple (bladder/pancreatic/testicular) and seven chose white (lung cancer). Six others selected black (melanoma), three red (blood cancers/head and neck), two green (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma/gallbladder/liver) and one gray (brain cancer).

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