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- Former NFL player huddles down with Guy's Hospital cancer patients Former NFL linebacker Chris Draft huddled down with patients at Guy’s Hospital to tackle stigma around lung cancer. About 35,000 people die from lung cancer in the UK every year, making it the UK's biggest cancer killer. This is despite major advances in treatment, partly because people wrongly think you have to smoke to develop it.
- Michael Darragh MacAuley and American football star American football star Chris Draft and Dublin GAA hero Michael Darragh MacAuley join forces to help highlight the Irish Cancer Society’s lung cancer awareness month, which takes place throughout January. More than 2,500 people in Ireland are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and both sportsmen know what it’s like to lose a loved one to the disease.
- Roswell woman fighting lung cancer wins Super Bowl tickets (CBS46)- Patty Watkins was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer five years ago this month.“I basically woke up from a surgery that I didn't know I was going to have with a surgeon at Kennestone telling me that I had stage four lung cancer and to get my affairs in order and to call my kids home from Auburn.”
- NC Green Beret battling Cancer Recognized at the Panthers Game CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A Purple Heart Green Beret from North Carolina who is battling terminal cancer, and the government over the right to sue for medical malpractice, was honored by the Carolina Panthers during Monday Night Football.
- Chris Draft speaks at the National Press Club National Press Club Panel Event Kicks Off Lung Cancer Awareness Month Survivors, researchers and advocates share their work and promote awareness in Washington, DC
Latest Press Releases
- Team Draft Sends Super Bowl Challenge Winners to Super Bowl 53, Pro-Bowl and Taste of the NFL to Raise Lung Cancer Awareness and Research Dollars (ATLANTA, GA) – Team Draft is sending lung cancer survivor-advocates to the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl and Taste of the NFL. These survivor-advocates are all winners of Team Draft’s fifth annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge—a unique fund raising challenge designed to give lung cancer survivors the opportunity to compete against one another to raise funds for public awareness and cutting-edge research that is giving new hope to those battling this often misunderstood disease. Participating survivors who raise more than $5,000 during the Super Bowl Challenge may commit 80% of the funds they raised to a lung cancer organization or cancer center of their choice. While the Challenge is over, the fundraising continues through Super Bowl Sunday.
- Team Draft Kicks off 5th Annual Super Bowl Challenge on November 1st to Raise Lung Cancer Awareness and Research Dollars Atlanta, GA. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and Team Draft will kick off it’s fifth annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge on November 1, 2018. This unique fund raising challenge gives lung cancer survivors the opportunity to raise funds for public awareness and cutting-edge research that is giving new hope to those battling this often misunderstood disease.
- Team Draft Sends Super Bowl Challenge Winners to Super Bowl, Pro-Bowl and Taste of the NFL to Raise Lung Cancer Awareness Phoenix, AZ. The winners of the inaugural Super Bowl Challenge will enjoy trips to the Super Bowl, the NFL Pro-Bowl and the Taste of the NFL this month as part of Team Draft’s National Campaign to Change the Face of Lung Cancer
- Team Draft Kicks Off Lung Cancer Awareness Month in Titletown With the Green Bay Packers (GREEN BAY, WIS.) – November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and Team Draft is kicking it off with the Green Bay Packers as they take on their long-time rivals the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football tonight. In partnership with Bellin Health—the Packers’ official healthcare provider—Team Draft arranged to have the game designated by the Packers as an official lung cancer awareness game.
- Asthma Advocate, Chris Draft launches National Public Service Announcement in partnership with the EPA The Foundation's Asthma Team will join Mothers & Others for Clean Air at Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School.