In an effort to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer, the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge and the Woodmen Tower will turn purple on Thursday.
The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center also will be lit purple through the end of November as part of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
More than 145 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each day according to Rachel Beideck with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. It has a five-year survival rate of just 9 percent.
More than 43,000 people will die from the disease in 2017, according to the American Cancer Society.