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Last Updated 01/11/2008
- 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.<more>
- 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.”<more>
- 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.<more>
- 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<more>
- Journey Time Chris Draft [Changing the face of lung cancer] In this episode, we meet Chris Draft, a former NFL linebacker and lung cancer advocate leading an international campaign to change the face of lung cancer. In 2011, lung cancer claimed the life of his wife, Keasha, and today, Chris uses his platform to stand up for others battling lung cancer.<more>
- Fighting lung cancer among non-smokers When you usually think of lung cancer you associate it with smoking. But not everyone who gets lung cancer. Take Tim Kimmel and Keasha Draft, wife of former NFL linebacker Chris Draft.<more>
- Down Under Changing the Face of Lung Cancer Chris Draft lost his wife to lung cancer a month into their marriage, now the NFL star is down under to share his wife’s legacy and continue the fight against lung cancer.<more>
- Survivors change face of lung cancer at Super Bowl with Team Draft MINNEAPOLIS — While thousands visited the Twin Cities to catch Super Bowl 52, others came out with a mission to change the face of lung cancer.<more>
- CURE Media Group Expands Strategic Alliance Partnership Program with the Addition of the Chris Draft Family Foundation CRANBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CURE Media Group, the nation’s leading digital and print media enterprise dedicated to patients and survivors of cancer, welcomes the Chris Draft Family Foundation to its Strategic Alliance Partnership (SAP) Program. The addition was announced by Michael J. Hennessy Jr., president of Michael J. Hennessy Associates, Inc., parent company of CURE Media Group.<more>
- LUNG CANCER SURVIVOR HEADS TO SUPER BOWL 52 ROCHESTER, Minn. – A lung cancer survivor is on her way to Super Bowl 52 after winning a national fundraiser. Linda Wortman has won the Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge after raising the money. According to her fundraising page “Run like L,” she’s raised more than $50,000.<more>