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Drew Carey Tweets: $1 Million For One Million Followers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

On the heels of LIVESTRONG Day 2009,held on October 2, comedian Drew Carey has publicly pledged via Twitter to raise his donation to Lance Armstrong's...

Birdies For Breast Cancer: Golfing Towards A Cure

Cristie Kerr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Cristie Kerr

Breast cancer has touched the lives of nearly all of us in some way and we all need to take an active role in educating others and supporting advances in research.

Video: Giving a Diagnosis of Cancer and Hope

Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kathy Plesser, MD

Two breast surgeons, Dr. Beth Siegel and Dr. Deborah Axelrod, talk about what it is like to break the news to a woman that she has breast cancer.

Cancer Research and the Stimulus

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Susan Sawyers

Rsearchers, although grateful for the TARP money, say what's needed is a long-term financial commitment without the shackles of spending deadlines and separate accounting for federal funding.

How Effective Is Our Cancer Research Funding Process?

nytimes.com | GINA KOLATA | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

The cancer institute has spent $105 billion since President Richard M. Nixon declared war on the disease in 1971. The American Cancer Society, the lar...

Outpouring of Support Gives Hope Against Cancer

Lisa Paulsen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lisa Paulsen

Stand Up To Cancer has raised $73.6 million for SU2C "Dream Teams" of top scientists at different institutions to help them get promising new treatments to cancer patients -- and do it fast.

ABC, NBC, CBS Unite To Raise Money For Cancer Research

ABC News | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Stand Up To Cancer, the charitable initiative launched last year and aimed at getting new cancer treatments to patients as quickly as possible, will a...

Stephen Bruton's Trip Around the Sun

Bill Paxton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Bill Paxton

On May 9th, Stephen Bruton became one of the 1,500 people that die everyday from cancer. That's a mind-numbing statistic. Unfortunately such statistics can go ignored.

Cancer Research Website Really Arlen Specter Campaign Fundraiser

Senate Guru | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Senate Guru

Critics say the layout of specterforthecure.com itself obscures the fact that what looks like a solicitation for medical research is really just a campaign cash come-on.

Jimmy V and the Closed Wallet

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Don McNay

I'm not the only person thinking twice about giving money to charity. Or about spending money. Most people have the same kind of hesitation that I have. And this compounds the financial crisis problem.

The End of Cancer Has Begun

Laura Ziskin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Laura Ziskin

This past September 5th, Stand Up to Cancer launched in a powerful way... we raised more than $100 million for innovative cancer research projects.

Music Cures

Marissa Moss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marissa Moss

Superchunk, The Rosebuds and Birds of Avalon will be playing a concert to benefit the Cy Rawls Benevolance fund on August 29th at Cat's Cradle in NC.

Congress Comes Through for Kids with Cancer

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Deirdre Imus

It goes without saying; families who have children diagnosed with cancer and children's health advocates commend Congress for recognizing the need for the Childhood Cancer Act.

Beyond Science Fiction

Buck Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Buck Goldstein

Dr. Joe DeSimone has just won a big invention award for nano-particles that are 100x smaller than a red blood cell and as smart as a microprocessor.

Valleys: Episode 1 -- "A Two-Edged Sword"

Mike Lang | Posted 04.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Mike Lang

When my brother-in-law Mike was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in his 40s, his life, along with his wife (my youngest sister) and their three young children, was turned upside down. The cancer wave rippled out from there. It was a wake-up call for friends and family.