Stand Up To Cancer

In 2007, the United States Congress declared May National Cancer Research Month in recognition of SU2C's sole scientific partner, the American Association for Cancer Research, and its focus on high quality, innovative cancer research. National Cancer Research Month is particularly important to us at SU2C because our mission is focused on cutting-edge, translational research. One hundred percent of the money you donate goes to funding our scientists' work. You might be wondering: what else is different about SU2C, and why is it important to invest in this type of research?

It can take up to six years of research to develop a new cancer drug, and another eight years to get that drug to patients. Meanwhile, 4,000 people are diagnosed with cancer every day in the United States, and every 60 seconds another American dies of the disease.

Our goal is to get promising new treatments to the patients who need them as quickly as possible. So we focus on translational cancer research, which accelerates the progress of promising new treatments by creating a "feedback loop" between researchers in the lab and clinicians working with patients. And we provide funding for this research through multidisciplinary Dream Teams, which combine scientists, doctors, patient advocates and more, and through Innovative Research Grants, which support risky projects with big potential that might not get funding through ordinary channels.

As one of our Dream Team co-leaders, Dr. Joe Gray, put it, "I think that one of the things that Stand Up To Cancer has done is to really galvanize the entire community to think bigger and faster than we have in the past."

At SU2C, we like to talk about who it's "Up2" to end this disease - Up2 scientists, Up2 celebrities, Up2 sisters and husbands and children, Up2 all of us. This month, it's Up2 you to spread the word. Share SU2C's mission with your friends and family, and invest in the movement toward collaborative, accelerated cancer research with the potential to save lives now.

Thanks, as always, for being a part of SU2C.