Friends, like many Americans this Month, I am Standing Up To Cancer.

I am doing this in honor of my mother in law Janet who has been battling stage 4 cancer this entire year. She is a rock and an inspiration to our family. And i am doing this to help the great people ad Stand up to Cancer fully their mission or curing cancer.

Stand Up To Cancer works relentlessly to offer the newest, most effective, and most promising cancer treatments to patients quickly by bringing together the best minds to collaborate, innovate, and share cancer research.

Stand Up To Cancer’s (SU2C) mission is to raise funds to accelerate the pace of groundbreaking translational research that can get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now.

SU2C brings together the best and the brightest researchers and mandates collaboration among the cancer community. By galvanizing the entertainment industry, SU2C has set out to generate awareness, educate the public on cancer prevention, and help more people diagnosed with cancer become long-term survivors.

Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C) funds groundbreaking cancer research to detect, intercept, and treat cancers with the aspiration to cure all patients. Connecting the top minds in science, SU2C has been at the forefront of cutting-edge cancer research for over 15 years, facilitating collaborations that move new therapies quickly from the laboratory to the patient. An integral part of SU2C’s identity is its relationship with the entertainment community, which helps raise awareness and builds broad public support for SU2C’s mission.

With a strategic focus on early detection and interception, SU2C’s bold goal is to reduce mortality from cancer by 25 percent in the next five years. This milestone is achievable through strategic funding of immunotherapies that can wipe out cancer, vaccines that prevent or treat cancer, and new methods that utilize artificial intelligence and large language models to predict and diagnose cancer earlier than ever.