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| box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or | | | | Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta Jones, |
| website. A copy would be appreciated at Breast | | | | "Catherine and I are committed to do everything |
| Cancer Cure With The Power Of Fame | | | | possible to eradicate this disease," says Oscar-winner |
| There is no known cure for breast cancer. More than | | | | Michael Douglas. Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, |
| 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer | | | | I lost my aunt to breast cancer about two years |
| this year worldwide. The incidence of breast cancer | | | | ago and my very good friend Liz to ovarian around |
| has nearly tripled in the past 50 years. A woman's | | | | the same time," says Wilson, who is married to Tom |
| lifetime risk has increased from 1 in 20 in the 1950's | | | | Hanks. "I've seen what these cancers are really like |
| to 1 in 7 today. Scientists don't know why most | | | | and we have to support more research. Steven |
| women get breast cancer, yet breast cancer is the | | | | Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw, Steven and |
| most frequent tumor found in women the world | | | | I are passionate about improving women's health," |
| over. What can a woman do when fate has played a | | | | says Capshaw. |
| cruel joke and a woman's very life can be in | | | | Stars that we know that are interested in supporting |
| question? What do you do when an intimate part of | | | | cancer research including breast cancer research |
| your body becomes host to an assassin, a foreign | | | | include: Melissa Etheridge, Charlie Sheen, Kirk and |
| element assigned to debilitate, maim and kill? | | | | Anne Douglas, Sting and wife Trudie Styler, Larry |
| A woman who dies of breast cancer is robbed of an | | | | King, Sylvester Stallone, Nicole Kidman, Bon Jovi, Julia |
| average of nearly 20 years of her life. Breast cancer | | | | Roberts, Jack Lemmon, Dustin Hoffman, Denzel |
| knows no social boundaries. It’s a disease that | | | | Washington, Warren Beatty, Candice Bergen, Angie |
| can affect anyone. Some prominent women whose | | | | Dickinson, Sally Field, Larry Hagman, Merv Griffin, |
| lives that have been touched by breast cancer | | | | Carroll O'Connor and his wife, Nancy, Robert DiNiro, |
| include: Anastacia, singer only 29 years old! Jill | | | | Cybill Shepherd, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, |
| Eikenberry actress age 52; Ann Jillian, 48, Actress; | | | | Sean Penn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Carmen Electra, Gene |
| Peggy Fleming age 49 figure skater; Kate Jackson | | | | Wilder, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Michael J. Fox, Tom |
| age 50 (Charlies Angels); Olivia Newton-John age 50 | | | | Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo Di Caprio, Sigourney |
| actress singer; Patti LaBelle, age 57, singer; Diahann | | | | Weaver, Bruce Willis, Billy Joel, Tim McGraw, Robbin |
| Carroll, age 63 Actress/singer; Rue McClanahan, | | | | Williams, Elizabeth Hurley, Tiger Woods, Madonna, |
| Hollywood actress, Rue is best known for her | | | | Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Will Smith, Katie |
| portrayal of Blanche on the hit sitcom The Golden | | | | Couric, George Clooney, Mike Myers, Ben affleck, |
| Girls; Shirley Temple Black age 70 Actress/singer; | | | | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, |
| Betty Ford, Former First Lady; Nancy Reagan age 77 | | | | Tommy Lee Jones, Al Pacino, P Diddy, George Lucas, |
| former first lady; Melissa Etheridge age 43 singer; | | | | Oliver Stone, Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears, |
| Lynn Redgrave, age 59, actress; Edie Falco Sopranos | | | | Barbara Streisand, Gene Hackman, Fred Thompson , |
| star, Tami Agassi, sister to tennis star Andre Agassi, | | | | Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Donald Trump, Donald |
| and the beautiful Suzanne Summers actress. Dusty | | | | Sutherland, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy |
| Springfield the singer, died from breast cancer at age | | | | Chase, Sidney Poitier, Tom Arnold, Quincy Jones, |
| 59. Breast cancer also took the lives of Linda | | | | Eminem, Shaquille Oneal, Adam Sandler, Steven |
| McCartney and Jill Ireland. This is a disease that has | | | | Soderbergh, Bono/U-2, Patti LaBelle, Rosie |
| plagued women for centuries. The mother of Louis | | | | O’Donnell, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Actor |
| XIV of France died of breast cancer in 1666. These | | | | Rob Lowe, he was moved to serve as a |
| high rates of breast cancer are not acceptable to the | | | | spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day, which |
| women of the world and must be met with scientific | | | | raised money for breast cancer research, because his |
| research that provides results. | | | | grandmother and great-grandmother both suffered |
| Despite over a decade of research, and more than | | | | from the disease, Sharon Osbourne, Britt Ekland, |
| $1.7 billion spent, hundreds of women worldwide are | | | | Westlife, Simon Cowell, Emma Thompson, Philip |
| dying from breast cancer every day. Yet doctors | | | | Treacy, Geri Halliwell, Paul McCartney, and Lance |
| don’t know how breast cancer starts or how | | | | Armstrong. |
| to cure it. Doctors are still approaching treatment for | | | | Country music stars who support breast cancer |
| breast cancer in the same old fashioned ways: | | | | research include: Wynona Judd, Amy Grant, Donny |
| surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Barbaric | | | | Osmond, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, Shania |
| treatments
And scientists keep doing the same | | | | Twain, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, George Strait, |
| old redundant research that’s simply not | | | | Toby Keith, LeAnn Rimes, the Dixie Chicks, Lonestar, |
| working. Over 30 US federal agencies and dozens of | | | | Brad Paisley, Diamond Rio, Trick Pony, Alan Jackson, |
| foundations, pharmaceutical and biotech companies | | | | SHeDAISY, Terri Clark, Lee Ann Womack, Phil |
| are conducting or funding research, but: No one | | | | Vassar, Buddy Jewell, Joe Nichols, Amy Grant, Anne |
| knows how much money is being raised every year. | | | | Murray, Vince Gill, Randy Travis, Tracy Lawrence, |
| No one knows how much money is being spent | | | | Tammy Cochran, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood, |
| every year. No one knows where the money is | | | | George Jones, Rascal Flatts, Emerson Drive, Bering |
| going. Meanwhile, mothers, sisters and daughters are | | | | Strait, Brooks & Dunn, Clint Black, Steve Wariner, |
| dying-at a rate of nearly 110 women a day. | | | | Kenny Rogers, Alabama, Faith Hill and Sara Evans, |
| It’s time for a new approach to cure this | | | | Richard Marx, Anne Cochran, Lee Ann Womack, Terri |
| deadly killer. We don’t want you to have to | | | | Clark, Dave Koz, Sophie B. Hawkins, Jonatha Brooke, |
| under go surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. | | | | Heart’s Anne and Nancy Wilson and Mercy Me. |
| A global action is the only answer to rising cancer | | | | We are also hoping that more of my celebrity friends |
| deaths. Someone needs to answer the action call on | | | | will come forward as spokespersons and spread their |
| all types of cancer. Newly formed International | | | | wings to help support our breast cancer research. My |
| Celebrity Cancer Research Foundation has answered | | | | friends and acquaintances include: Steven Seagal, |
| that call on global cancer. ICCRF’s war on | | | | Charlie Sheen (Charlie, has done a great job for |
| cancer will be fought with the power of fame with | | | | breast cancer research by leading an effort in the |
| celebrities from all 192 countries of the world. But the | | | | fight against breast cancer, by encouraging the |
| war on cancer can only be won with the support | | | | American public to take part in a National Denim Day), |
| from the citizens of the world. Each and every one | | | | Wesley Snipes, Danny Glover, Erik Estrada, Tom |
| of you can answer your personal call to action to | | | | Arnold, Dolph Lundgren, Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton, |
| help fight the global war on cancer by supporting | | | | Usher, Clint Black, Hulk Hogan, Ivana Trump, Clint |
| ICCRF’s battle on the war on cancer now. | | | | Black, John Secada, Sylvester Stalone, Arnold |
| Billionaires whom we have been recommended that | | | | Schwarzenegger, Mike Reno, Eddie Money, Paul |
| we should contact for support include: Paul Allen, Bill | | | | Hogan, Jay Leno, Danny Glover, Danny Aiello, Larry |
| and Melinda Gates, Jon Huntsman, William and Alice | | | | Hagman, Lee Majors, Tyson Becford, Jennifer Tilly, |
| Goodman, Ann Lurie, Jamie and Karen Moyer, Harold | | | | David Hasselhoff, Richard Branson, Brendan Fraser, |
| C. Simmons, Alfred Mann, Sumner M. Redstone, | | | | Cindy Crawford, (whose grandmother died from |
| Michael Milton and the Palm beach billionaires. There | | | | breast cancer), Cher, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, |
| are simply too many billionaires to mention them all. | | | | Michelle Pfeiffer, and other stars that I have had the |
| The combined wealth of the three Microsoft | | | | good fortune of meeting in person and others |
| billionaires alone is more than ten times the amount | | | | celebrities that I hope to meet in the future. How |
| spent by the U.S. Federal Government on research to | | | | about Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnon, |
| fight cancer and other deadly diseases. We could use | | | | Mick Jagger and Pamela Lee Anderson. (Photos of |
| help from the media with publicity stories, ads and | | | | Denny and the stars can be viewed at his |
| promotions to get the word out. We are particularly | | | | promotional group listed below.) We have star friends |
| interested in looking for assistance from the | | | | who are bigger than life and they are ready to |
| billionaires of the world; there are approximately 600 | | | | become our spokespersons. But we still need your |
| in the world. Billionaires like Sergey Brin and Larry | | | | donations to get our celebrities to international print |
| Page (Google billionaires), Rupert Murdoch, Ted | | | | and broadcast ads to get the word out. We, the |
| Turner, and Oprah Winfrey and others who control | | | | people of the world can cure breast cancer as well |
| the media could get our life-saving message to the | | | | as all the cancers of the world. |
| world fast. | | | | |