Stand Up to Cancer

Beyond Baseball

Laura Ziskin | Posted 11.01.2009 | Entertainment


Laura Ziskin

Stand Up To Cancer's call-to-action at Saturday's World Series game tapped into the best of baseball, and the best in corporate sponsorship on an issue that affects us all.

Remembering Patrick Swayze and a Campaign to End Cancer

Laura Ziskin | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living


Laura Ziskin

Last year Patrick Swayze defiantly posed the questions, "Will you stand with me? Will you stand up to cancer?" His words that day are ringing in my ears now.

The Future We Make: Ted Kennedy's Legacy in Fighting Cancer

Sherry Lansing | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Sherry Lansing

Senator Kennedy practiced "random acts of kindness" long before they were in vogue. It was Ted Kennedy's deep empathy for those who are sick and afflicted that will be his lasting legacy.

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

ABC News | Posted 06.27.2009 | 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 06.27.2009 | 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.

Outpouring of Support Gives Hope Against Cancer

Lisa Paulsen | Posted 06.27.2009 | 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.

Help Me Defeat Alec Baldwin in a Celebrity Smackdown!

Corbin Bleu | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment


Corbin Bleu

Sure, Alec Baldwin is cool. Sure, Alec Baldwin is funny. Sure, Alec Baldwin has won every honor under the sun. But dammit, I am the guy from High School Musical, and I want to win.

The End of Cancer Has Begun

Laura Ziskin | Posted 12.18.2008 | 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.

The Star-Studded (And Tear-Jerking) "Stand Up To Cancer"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media


On Friday night, all three networks ram the star-studded, commercial-free benefit show, "Stand Up To Cancer," to raise money to fund cancer research a...

Stand Up To Cancer Ratings: 10.4 Million Watch

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media


NEW YORK -- The industrywide "Stand Up to Cancer" telethon averaged at least 10.3 million viewers in its hourlong simulcast on ABC, NBC and CBS Friday...

Stand Up To Cancer: Networks Raise Over $100 Million

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Spurred by an historic telethon Friday night, viewers stood up to cancer and pushed total donations for research to battle the diseas...

Cancer Telethon Takes Over TV

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 10.06.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night...

Stand Up to Cancer: My Story

Joanna Rudnick | Posted 10.06.2008 | Living


Joanna Rudnick

When I was 27 years old, four words changed my life: "Positive for a deleterious mutation." Translated into English, that meant I was carrying the mutated gene that triggered the breast and ovarian cancer suffered by my mother, grandmother and great aunts.

News Anchors Set To "Stand Up To Cancer"

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams have something in common besides their jobs: Each has lost loved ones to cancer _ whi...

Stand Up To Cancer - Interview With Laura Ziskin

Sean Morrow | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living


Sean Morrow

On the evening of September 5, 2008, all three major networks will be broadcasting the same content. The rare simulcast will be a telethon for Stand ...

Larry David: "Help A Bald Brother Out" For 'Stand Up To Cancer' Campaign (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment


Huffington post blogger Larry David of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame has released a video in which he states "Cancer has many victims, I shou...

News anchors to promote cancer initiative

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — ABC, CBS and NBC have set aside a prime-time hour on the Friday after Labor Day to simulcast a fundraiser for cancer research. "Stan...

"Stand Up To Cancer": Networks Plan "Unprecedented" Joint Telethon For Cancer Research

Huffington Post | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media


Update: In a move to be announced on all three networks' morning shows Tuesday, ABC, CBS, and NBC are teaming up for a telethon to benefit cancer res...