Even though researchers today understand more than ever before the way cancer begins, progresses and spreads, this year the American Cancer Society predicts that 1,437,180 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer and six million people around the world will die from cancer. Stand Up To Cancer is founded on the belief that now, more than ever, there is strong knowledge of the basic science of cancer, and that the technologies are available to translate this knowledge into real advances in cancer treatment and prevention.
Stand Up To Cancer is an unprecedented collaboration uniting the major television networks, entertainment industry executives and celebrities, and prominent leaders in cancer research and patient advocacy in a major new initiative to move groundbreaking cancer research out of the lab and into the clinic.
Today's cancer scientists are on the verge of life-saving discoveries. But what they desperately need are the funds required to mount an all-out assault. Stand Up To Cancer is dedicated to providing this much needed new source of cancer research funding.
As the scientific brain trust in all subfields of cancer research, the AACR is a partner in the Stand Up To Cancer initiative and will provide scientific oversight and will conduct expert scientific review of the research projects and administer funds raised under the direction of a Scientific Advisory Committee.