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Celebrities for Stem Cell Research is an organization committed to funding research of all types of stem cell therapy. They promise that all profits after operating costs will be given as grants to those researchers who have proven to be making strides in stem cell research. Anthony M. Salas writes on the website “I am [...]
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To honor and support former 1995 Hooters Calendar Cover Girl, Kelly Jo Dowd, who is battling a recurrence of breast cancer that has spread to her organs and bones — during the 10th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant in Las Vegas, Hooters gave her a check for $135,000 and announced a $1 million dollar breast [...]
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Beginning August 5 and running through to August 13, Odd Job Humanitarians are offering their services to local residents of Victoria in an effort to raise money for cancer research. During the Week to End Cancer, Oak Bay high school graduate Scott Baker is spearheading the campaign that will offer handyman and odd job services [...]
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As John Kerry prepares to ride in the upcoming Pan-Massachusetts Challenge to raise money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and cancer research, Bella English of the Boston Globe got a chance to have a chat with him about being a prostate cancer survivor. Kerry was diagnosed with prostate cancer during his presidential primary campaign in 2002. [...]
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The Head to Hollywood charity, founded by US Weekly magazine editor Ken Baker, a pituitary brain tumor survivor, and actress/model Carmen Electra, whose mother died of a malignant brain tumor, provides brain tumor patients with opportunities to spend a day being pampered as a star and experiencing life as a celebrity. This might include attendance [...]
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More than 2,000 people raised $6 million for cancer research in the “Weekend to End Breast Cancer” in Calgary. Almost every participant in the two-day, 60-kilometre walk knows someone who’s had breast cancer. Ann Lines is a good example. She has a photo of a friend of her’s named vicki on her t-shirt, and says [...]
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Back in June, when Pamela Anderson stood nude in the window of fashion designer Stella McCartney’s London clothes shop to bring attention to PETA, she was making a statement she would rather go nude than wear fur. Anderson chose to deliver that message in a way certain to be heard. It was an outrageous stunt [...]
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World Cancer Research Fund is one of five charities involved in The One Million Masterpiece global art project that is attempting to reflect the true view of our global society by inviting one million people to work on one single piece of art. Each person will contribute one piece to the work of art. No [...]
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Internationally-known celebrity tattoo artist Mario Barth of Starlight Tattoo has announced a $1 million dollar challenge to local businesses and people in the northern New Jersey community to help raise money to benefit the CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation for childhood cancers. The Starlight Tattoo website has published statistics that in the last 20 years, [...]
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Safeway, a major-chain grocery store, announced that it has raised a whopping $5.1 million dollars during its Prostate Cancer Awareness Month fundraiser in June. In just six years, Safeway has raised more than $17.8 million dollars to benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation for prostate cancer awareness and research. In addition to the traditional solicited customer [...]
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Channel News Asia reported on the Hair for Hope event of 300 volunteers — men, women and children — who sat down on Sunday to have their heads shaved to send a message of love to children facing cancer and show support for families. Another 300 volunteers are expected to join in the head shaving [...]
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I have committed myself to only one breast cancer fitness event at the moment. I hope to one day branch out a bit and walk and run in different festivities, in different cities, for different purposes. But for now, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer — sponsored by the American Cancer Society — is my cause. [...]
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