The Westbrook girls soccer team is sporting pink soccer socks for its home games, as a way to promote breast cancer awareness, and the Blue Blazes have made the cause their team fundraiser this season.

"We see it somehow every day as adults," Westbrook Coach Vincent Aceto said. "It could be 'my mother-in-law had it,' or 'my grandmother had it.' Just to make an impact somehow, it's what we're doing."

Some statistics to consider in regards to breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society:

Nearly 180,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007.

The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer in her lifetime is one in eight. The chance of dying from it is 1 in 33.

It's the second-leading cause of death in women, after lung cancer.

But since 1960, the five-year survival rate for women with breast cancer rose from 50 percent to 90 percent.

October, by the way, is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. For more information, go to The American Cancer Society. And if you're a woman over 40 who is reading this, the American Cancer Society recommends you to schedule your annual mammogram.

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