Blue Lizard Australian Suncream And Shade Foundation Of America Partner To Bring Skin Cancer Awareness To Nascar At Infineon Speedway June 24 — 26th

Monday, June 18th, 2007 at 3:30 pm · Blog

Blue Lizard & SHADE along with Walgreens drug stores and local der­ma­tol­o­gists are on site con­duct­ing free skin can­cer screen­ings through the week­end. “Twenty can­cer­ous lesions were detected dur­ing screen­ings on Friday”, reports Jeff Bedard, CEO of Blue Lizard. “Through early detec­tion we hope to save lives and bring sun safety aware­ness to thou­sands of NASCAR fans.” A sim­i­lar pro­gram through Blue Lizard began in 2001 at Bristol Motor Speedway and have found nearly 100 melanomas dur­ing the past four years.

The Blue Lizard 200 NASCAR event at Infineon Raceway is an idear way to raise aware­ness about sun safety. SHADE Foundation will present an award to the California win­ner of the national SunWise with SHADE poster con­test. The win­ning artist will be the hon­orary starter on Saturday, drop­ping the green flag to start the race.

Along with the free screen­ings and free Blue Lizard Suncream sam­ples, chil­dren will be able to vote for their favorite poster and enter a draw­ing for a NASCAR prize.