4/20/2012 Attention, Washington D.C.: Help Beat Lung Cancer - Jog for Jill on Sunday, April 22nd! #lungcancerRead NowCheck out Jill's Legacy on MSNBC... Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Register or donate here.
4/19/2012 Help Get the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act Passed! Contact your Senators and Representative Today!Read NowThe Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund advocate Jackie Archer is traveling to Washington DC by invitation to speak with Congressmen, Senators, and others about the need for the early detection of lung cancer. A lung cancer survivor herself, Jackie's cancer was detected early by accident - literally. It took a head-on car crash and a trip to the emergency room for doctors to discover her tumor early enough. Each year, nearly 160,000 lung cancer patients are not so "lucky". Jackie will be taking the time in DC to network with anyone and everyone to help make a difference. Thanks, Jackie! One thing that YOU can do is to contact every Senator and Congressman from your great state and ask them to support the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act (HR 1394). Below is a list of co-sponsors in the Senate and the House that have already agreed to support the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act. As you can see, we need additional sponsors!
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http://www.LungCancerLicensePlate.org 4/17/2012 The state of Georgia is officially the first in the country to offer #lungcancer Awareness Specialty License PlatesRead Now4/13/2012 #Georgia #LungCancer #Awareness License Plate to be made official on Monday, April 16th! @teamdraft @bonniejaddario @jackieshope @joegaeta #teamdraftRead NowBreaking News!!Georgia Governor Nathan Deal is scheduled to sign GA HB 732 into law on Monday, April 16th! Among other things, this law will create the Georgia Lung Cancer Awareness Specialty License Plate. At 2pm on Monday the 16th, the State of Georgia will officially be the first state in the country with a lung cancer specialty plate! IN GEORGIA, LUNG CANCER MATTERS! If you would like to be a part of this historic event and witness the signing, contact Jackie Archer at lungcancermatters2@gmail.com. It will take place on the second floor of the State Capitol downtown. It is scheduled for 2pm, but you must be there no later than 1:15pm. 4/10/2012 @TheHankBaskett Holds Super Bowl of Golf Tournaments May 20-21 to Score Financial Backing for the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation #lungcancer @hbgolfclassicRead NowHank Baskett and his Dad. SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NFL wide receiver Hank Baskett, former Minnesota Vikings player, is calling on his A-Team list of players and celebrities to drive Lung Cancer off the earth and score major funding for the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation with an inaugural charity golf tournament May 21 at Donald Trump's golf club in Rancho Palos Verdes in California. Baskett has recruited a major league team of power hitters to attend including: Kendra Wilkinson, Stephen C. Bishop, Christopher Duncan, Alfonso Ribeiro, Jermaine Dye, Michael Strahan, Corey Dillon, Jessica Hall, Sara Underwood, Jayde Nicole, Tosh Berman, David Justice, Marcellus Wiley, Danielle Fishel, Matt Nordgren, Kris Humphries, Kevin Love, Danny Granger, Adrienne Maloof and Eric Allen. The celebrated football player is determined to smash this deadly opponent – Lung Cancer. The statistics are grim: 1.6 million people worldwide will be diagnosed with Lung Cancer this year. Only 15.5% will survive. He's teaming up with the foundation because he's determined to help us make a powerful impact and a winning difference. The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation has raised $9 million to support research and related patient services, and has become a recognized global leader in Lung Cancer research. It provides patient empowerment, support, referrals, and valuable information on up-to-the-minute treatment options, genetic testing and personalized medicine, offering hope that Lung Cancer can become a chronically managed disease in our lifetime. "We're proud to be partnering with Hank Baskett," says Bonnie J. Addario, founder and a Lung Cancer survivor. "We're so honored to have Hank on our team helping to raise essential funding and awareness for Lung Cancer and the message that ANYONE CAN GET LUNG CANCER." Baskett also will serve as honorary chair of the Seventh Annual Golf Tournament on June 11, 2012 at Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae, CA. Addario urges everyone: "To join the efforts in changing the inexcusable 15.5 percent survival rate for Lung Cancer patients and to help and support the foundation in saving lives and supporting our efforts." Ninety percent of all funds raised support research and mission related programming. The invitation-only VIP Welcome Reception will be held at 7 p.m. in the Catalina Ballroom of the Terranea Resort and Spa in Rancho Palos Verdes, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Registration begins at 10 a.m. on May 21, the next day, for The Hank Baskett Classic Golf Tournament followed by lunch and a shotgun start at 11:30 a.m. at Trump National Golf Club. Sponsorship packages are available through The Griffin Gives Foundation for tee box sponsors (prices vary according to the level of sponsorship). To inquire about sponsorship opportunities please click HERE or contact tracey@giffingives.org or at 267-382-0261. For more information, contact Sheila Von Driska, Communications, at 415.357.1278 or sheila@lungcancerfoundation.org. About the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation BJALCF is one of the largest philanthropies (patient-founded, patient-focused, and patient-driven) devoted exclusively to eradicating Lung Cancer through research, early detection, education, and treatment. The Foundation works with a diverse group of physicians, organizations, industry partners, individuals, survivors, and their families to identify solutions and make timely and meaningful change. BJALCF was established on March 6, 2006 as a 501© (3) non-profit organization. Photo courtesy of Hank Baskett SOURCE: Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation 4/5/2012 #LungCancer vanity plate makes swift move through GA General Assembly @bonniejaddario @jackieshope @teamdraftRead NowThis article was originally published in the Cherokee Ledger-News on 4/3/12. By: Jessica Wagner (PHOTO INSERT: Rep. Sean Jerguson, R-Holly Springs, and former Holly Springs Councilwoman Jacqueline Archer stand with a sample lung cancer awareness vanity plate. The plates should be on the back of vehicles by this summer. Photo special to the Ledger-News) In less than two months, former Holly Springs City Councilwoman Jacqueline Archer has accomplished something that takes many people a year, if not years, to achieve. A bill calling for the production of a lung cancer awareness vanity plate passed both houses March 26 and has made its way to Gov. Nathan Deal’s office; the bill had not been signed by press time. “I am just so excited,” said Archer. “I had no doubt that it was going to go through, but I had no idea that the other license plates, according to Rep. Sean Jerguson, have taken a year or more.” Archer, 47, called the bill a victory for anyone who has been or will be affected by lung cancer in the state. “It all started in Cherokee County because that’s where I am from, but if we could start it here and continue on, then that’s where I would like to go,” she said. “I am thinking big.” Twelve additional states, including California, Illinois, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida, New Jersey and Maine, have pledged to follow in Georgia’s footsteps with a vanity plate that will mirror Archer’s mission of spreading lung cancer awareness. “What I am working on right now is an example of what Georgia’s process was for getting the license plate through all of the hoops, understanding that other states may have nuances that are particular to that state,” Archer said. As a stage III never-smoking lung cancer survivor, Archer said spearheading the specialized license plate has been a dream of hers since she overcame her battle with the disease in August of 2005, just 12 weeks after being diagnosed. Her diagnosis came as a surprise six years ago when Archer was involved in a car accident. At the hospital, doctors found an orange-sized mass, which, along with 31 lymph nodes, was successfully removed. Her survival sparked a mission to spread awareness about a disease that she called “underfunded.” The pieces began falling together this past January after Archer teamed up with Jerguson and The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund to make her vision a reality. The state required 1,000 pre-order commitments prior to legislators casting a vote. While the vanity plates met the requirements set forth by the state, residents interested in donning the lung cancer awareness plate on the back of their vehicles can still place orders at www.lungcancerlicenseplate.org. “We are supplying to the Department of Driver Services everyone who is pre-paying for the license plate, along with the county that the resident lives in and their driver’s license number,” Archer said. By this summer, residents who placed pre-paid orders, as well as first-time payers, can pick up their plates. The money collected from the vanity plate sales are pre-designated for the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI) through the listed recipient, The Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Fund. “Now, we are going to be able to see a financial impact on research and early detection so that we can reach the goal by 2020 of having a survival rate of 50 percent versus the 15 percent that has remained unchanged for the last 40 years,” Archer said. In addition to taking lung cancer awareness vanity plates from coast-to-coast, Archer is traveling to Washington D.C. for a Congressional event April 19. During the event she will speak to legislators about unmasking lung cancer on purpose and not by chance, as was her story. “I am going to testify on behalf of early detection,” she said, adding it is a collaborative event with herself and Dr. Henry Krebs, director of interventional radiology at St. Joseph’s Hospital. “He will be speaking to the medical side of lung cancer; I will be speaking to the lack of early detection screening and my story.” Archer has also reached out to Cherokee County Tax Commissioner Sonya Little to promote the lung cancer awareness vanity plates during National Lung Cancer Awareness Month every November. |
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