WHEREAS, during this year alone, over 77,000 women will be diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer, which is the fourth largest cancer killer of women in the United States; and

        WHEREAS, the good health and well-being of the women of the State of Idaho is enhanced as a direct result of efforts to spread awareness about gynecologic cancers; and

        WHEREAS, it is incumbent upon the citizens of Idaho to work together as concerned people and as a State to increase research in understanding the causes, in finding effective screening and prevention strategies, and in developing improved therapies for gynecologic cancers; and

        WHEREAS, the State of Idaho is pleased to join in recognizing and applauding the valuable role which families and advocates of gynecologic cancer victims play in helping our medical community to advance the fight against these diseases;

        NOW THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho do hereby declare the month of September

GYNECOLOGIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 30^th day of August in the year of our Lord two thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE