By Matt Leingang
Enquirer staff writer

IF YOU GO

What: The inaugural Prep Classic. When: Sunday. Where: Paul Brown Stadium. The match-ups: Moeller vs. Louisville St. Xavier, noon Elder vs. Highlands, 2:30 p.m. Colerain vs. Anderson, 5 p.m. Game-day tickets and up-to-date information regarding the event can be found at www.prepclassic.com. Pre-sale tickets are $10; game-day tickets are $15; $2 of each pre-sale ticket goes toward the local participating schools. Ninety percent of the event's proceeds benefit the Anthony Munoz Foundation, Marvin Lewis Community Fund and Cris Collinsworth Proscan Foundation.

Moeller, Elder, Colerain, Anderson and Highlands high schools will all play in Sunday's inaugural prep football classic at Paul Brown Stadium.

Ninety percent of the proceeds from the event will go toward creating a women's health clinic in Over-the-Rhine, specializing in mammography screening.

Although open to all women, the center hopes to make a difference in the lives of African-American women, who die from breast cancer at disproportionately higher rates.

In the United States, 31 out of every 100,000 African-American women die of breast cancer. In comparison, 27 out of every 100,000 white women and 15 out of every 100,000 Latinos die of breast cancer.

Lack of early detection among African-American women - citing poverty or distrust of the system - is a major reason why, said Deborah Macdonald, executive director of the Cris Collinsworth Proscan Foundation, which is taking money raised at the football event and donating it to the health center.

The Marvin Lewis and Anthony Munoz foundations are doing the same.

Organizers are not revealing how much money is involved. But it is expected to be enough to buy a traditional mammogram X-ray machine, which can cost about $75,000. It will also pay for a technician and cover the cost of the exam - at least $70 - for patients who can't pay.

Plans call for the women's center to open in about six months. It will be at the Crossroad Health Center on East Liberty Street, which already offers primary health-care services for low-income or uninsured families.

If any lumps or abnormalities in a patient's breast tissue are discovered, the health center will arrange for a biopsy to be done at a clinic or hospital, said Jo Ann Reilly, director of development at Crossroad.

If treatment is necessary Crossroad will work with Proscan, the American Cancer Society and other organizations to help cover the costs, said Jo Ann Reilly, director of development at Crossroad.

The American Cancer Society recommends that all women receive annual mammograms beginning at age 40.

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