Team Draft met with the Lerner Family and Andre Babu as part of the In Georgia Lung Cancer Matters Tour celebrating Georgia becoming the first state in the country to introduce a lung cancer specific license plate.  In 2011, the Lerner's lost their son and brother, Joey, to lung cancer at age 40.  After being diagnosed with Stage IV Lung Cancer, Andre Babu was on his death bed, but when the doctors at Mass General discovered that the ROS genetic mutation that caused his lung cancer reacted to Crizotinib, a drug designed to treat ALK mutations, all that changed.  Neither Joey nor Andrea smoked, and their stories highlight the importance of personalized genetic therapies, and the need for increased research funding to ensure that we continue to make breakthroughs in the kinds and number of genetic mutations that can be treated with drugs like Crizotinib.  Research funding is, however, negatively impacted by the "smokers stigma."  By joining Team Draft in its National Campaign to Change the Face of Lung Cancer, the Lerners and Andre Babu are out to
change all that.