Major League Baseball's Athletic Trainers Join Fight Against Colorectal Cancer at Spring Training

U.S. Newswire, March, 2002

WASHINGTON, March 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Throughout the month of March, the athletic trainers of Major League Baseball will help raise awareness of colorectal cancer at Spring Training games throughout Florida and Arizona. The athletic trainers, all members of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS), have joined with the James E. Olson Foundation (JEO), an organization whose mission is to provide colorectal cancer research and information, to make the American public aware of the need to be screened for this "cancer that no one wants to talk about."

Along with baseball's return to the playing field, March is significant because it marks National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Each year over 55,000 Americans die from colorectal cancer, making it the...

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