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COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING INITIATIVE FOUNDATION

********************* Bottoms Up! TORONTO, June 7 - What do astronaut Roberta Bondar, Consul General Pamela Wallin, Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson, the National Ballet's Karen Kain, Argos Quarterback Damon Allen and six other well-known personalities have in common?

They all put their butts on the line for Colorectal Cancer, creating fabulous designer bottoms to be auctioned off at the Colorectal Cancer Screening Initiative Foundation's Bottoms Up! event, Thursday, June 8, 2006, 6:30 p.m.; Palais Royale; 1601 Lake Shore Boulevard West.

Bottoms Up! brings levity to a serious message.

Colorectal Cancer is the number two killer, by cancer, of Canadians.

The incredible part - it is up to 95 percent preventable with timely and thorough screening.

Bottom line: CCSIF wants Canadians to put their bottoms at the top of their priority list. Bottoms Up! features Designer Bottoms to be auctioned at 8:30 p.m., a Silent But Deadly Auction and Pin The Tail on the Assterisk(*) game.

Approximately 20,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year.

8,500 will die.

Organized, population-based screening saves lives.

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