Mark P. Marini is Changing the Face of Lung Cancer Thanks for selecting me as a Team Draft’s recipient as it was a special day for my wife and I and the owner of my company Anthony Cafaro Jr and …
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Not just a smoker’s disease — Former NFL player raises awareness for lung cancer
Not just a smoker’s disease — Former NFL player raises awareness for lung cancer Lung cancer is often perceived as a smoker’s disease. But a hard look at lung cancer diagnosis data reveals that 45 percent of patients with the …
Lung cancer remains a major killer
Lung cancer remains a major killer By Kathryn Roethel of the SF Gate The No. 1 killing cancer is not the one many people think of first. It’s not the one with the pink ribbon, or the one whose controversial …
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 …
Team Draft To Celebrate Co-Founder’s Birthday By Attending Live Taping Of Dancing With The Stars With 12-Year-Old Lung Cancer Survivor
( Los Angeles, CA) – Monday, May 13, 2013, would have been the 40th birthday of Team Draft’s co-founder, Keasha Draft, who lost her courageous battle with lung cancer in 2011. Team Draft is marking the occasion by spending the …
Former Forty-Niner Tackles Lung Cancer At The Super Bowl; Debuts New Public Awareness Video
(NEW ORLEANS, LA) – This week, Team Draft co-founder and former San Francisco Forty-Niners linebacker, Chris Draft, is bringing Team Draft’s National Campaign to Change the Face of Lung Cancer to New Orleans. Draft, who lost his wife, Keasha, to …
Former Falcon Helps 15-Year-Old Lung Cancer Survivor Celebrate Another Birthday With Trip To NFC Championship Game
(ATLANTA, GA) – On January 8, 2012, Abby Wilson celebrated her 15th birthday. While birthdays are special to all of us, they are uniquely important to Abby who was been battling a rare form of pediatric lung cancer since she …
Team Draft to Kickoff National Lung Cancer Screening Event for Veterans at Walter Reed
Bethesda, MD (November 8, 2012) – In honor of Veterans Day weekend, Team Draft, in partnership with Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) and Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), is joining with Walter Reed National Medical Center and select lung cancer screening …
Team Draft and the National Lung Cancer Partnership Team Up to Tackle Lung Cancer
ATLANTA, GA and MADISON, WI. (March 19, 2012) – Team Draft and the National Lung Cancer Partnership (the Partnership) are joining forces to bring much needed attention and critical resources to lung cancer. The disease takes the lives of more …
Mark Varvares, MD, Director, Saint Louis University Cancer Center
Mark Varvares, MD, Director, Saint Louis University Cancer Center Mark Varvares, MD Director, Saint Louis University Cancer Center Education Undergraduate: University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine St.Louis, MO Internship: Northwestern …