At Stand Up to Cancer, we're in final preparations for our second one-hour television event. Airing live at 8/7C, on Friday September 10, SU2C will be broadcast on every major network. We're building on the success of our first show in 2008, but it's more than a media event. We'll be sharing the progress we've made and all that's within our grasp in the cause of ending cancer. That means reporting on the work of our scientific Dream Teams and Innovative Research Grant recipients. It means combining the star power of Hollywood with the brain power of research community, the generosity of organizations like GSK, and the outpouring of heroic public support we continue to receive.
As the show's producer and a person living with cancer myself, I'm working to make sure that Stand Up to Cancer's concentration on innovation, acceleration, translational research, targeted therapies, and collaboration will offer an empowering vision of all that's possible when we work together, toward a common goal. That work continues on Friday September 10 at 8pm. None of it would be possible without the collaborative support of citizens and companies like GSK--all those helping lead the charge toward a time when everyone diagnosed with cancer will become a survivor. I wanted to take this moment to thank GSK, and to encourage everyone reading to tune in next week. While you're watching, please join together with GSK and join SU2C: give what you can at www.standup2cancer.org, and help save lives.
Laura Ziskin is a film and television producer whose credits include the Spider Man trilogy, Pretty Woman, and the 74th and 79th Academy Awards. Ziskin is a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer and executive producer of the Stand Up To Cancer telecast airing Friday, Sept 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT. Like one in three women in this country, Laura was diagnosed with cancer (Stage 3 Breast Cancer in 2004). As a cancer survivor, she is determined to use all her resources to make cancer a first tier issue in this country.
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