(ABC/SCOTT GARFIELD) On Friday, September 5, an extraordinary line-up of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists banded together at the Kodak Theatre Hollywood, CA for Stand Up To Cancer, a landmark televised event airing on ABC, CBS and NBC aimed at raising funds to accelerate cancer research. Stand Up To Cancer is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization.
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Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is an initiative aimed at raising funds to accelerate innovative cancer research, bringing new therapies to patients quickly that will saves lives now.
The television special will be hosted by Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and Brian Williams (the anchors, respectively, of the CBS, ABC and NBC evening news programs) and will feature numerous celebrity cancer survivors who exemplify that cancer can affect even the smartest, strongest and toughest people in our lives. Those expected to participate include Christina Applegate, Lance Armstrong, Fran Drescher, Elizabeth Edwards, Delta Goodrem, Michael C. Hall, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sharon Osbourne, Robin Roberts, Maura Tierney, Sofia Vergara, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Ethan Zohn. One of the musical performances will be an all-star collaboration led by Stevie Wonder with Natasha Bedingfield, Queen Latifah, Martina McBride, Aaron Neville, and Dave Stewart.
“We are eternally grateful for the remarkable support we’ve received from the entire entertainment community. We couldn’t do this without everyone’s help – from the networks and cable channels donating the airtime to our celebrity volunteers participating in the show and a lot of other people in between,” said Sherry Lansing, one of the co-founders of Stand Up To Cancer.
“On September 10th, we’ll send a resounding message: we can cure cancer. It’s going to take guts, brains, and the ongoing support of the public, but we can do this."
The primary goal of SU2C is to raise funds for groundbreaking translational research to accelerate the delivery of new therapies to patients, getting them from the “bench to the bedside” as quickly as possible. SU2C brings together scientists from different disciplines across various institutions to work collaboratively, rather than competitively, at a critical time in the field of cancer research.
One hundred percent of all donations received from the public will go directly to cancer research. Viewers will have the ability to donate via a dedicated phone line, the web, or through text.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which consists of more than 32,000 scientists engaged in the fight against cancer, is Stand Up To Cancer’s sole scientific partner. The AACR, the oldest and largest scientific organization in the world focusing on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research from the bench to the bedside, is responsible for administering the managing the grants, and providing scientific oversight in conjunction with the SU2C Scientific Advisory Committee.
Stand Up To Cancer will air on primetime TV on September 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT. The one-hour fundraising event will be simulcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Bio, Discovery Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, mun2, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, The Style Network, TV One, and VH1.
For more information visit www.standup2cancer.org