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SUMMARY:Anne Phillips Attended the College Football National Championship
DESCRIPTION:View Photos \nIt’s hard to know to what to say about all this other than we are just so excited! With the short timeline between the end of the contest and the national championships we haven’t had much time to process. Watching that Rose Bowl game and knowing we were going to see the winner play live was great. And Georgia vs. Alabama? What a match up! ~ Anne Phillips  \nAtlanta\, GA. Denver\, CO lung cancer survivor Anne Phillips and\, her husband\, Ryan attended the 2018 College Football National Championship in Atlanta\, GA on January 8\, 2018.  Anne and Ryan watched the University of Alabama Crimson Tide defeat the University of Georgia Bulldogs in overtime at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. \nAs an avid college football fan there is no other sporting event I would rather attend than the National Championship game. And winning a trip to the game by raising money for IASLC makes the event much more meaningful. Every dollar spent on lung cancer research extends peoples’s lives. My wife and I are here today because of this research\, and I am extremely proud of my wife for advancing the cause and in her bravery in living with lung cancer. ~ Ryan Phillips \nAnne earned a trip to the National Championship by being the fourth highest fundraiser in the 2018 Lung Cancer Survivor Super Bowl Challenge. Team SuperAnne will be able to continue to raise funds for the IASLC (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) until February 5\, 2018. \n \n \nIn May of 2015\, I had a seizure and collapsed one morning before taking my young children to school. Within 24 hours\, the doctors suspected I had lung cancer. There was a tumor in the upper lobe of my left lung and multiple metastasis in my brain.  Two days later I had brain surgery to remove the largest brain tumor\, the one that caused the seizure\, and the oncologist sent material from the tumor to be genomically tested. Tumor testing showed that I had an EGFR mutation which could be treated with a targeted-therapy drug called Tarceva. The drug worked well for almost 2 years before my cancer progressed and metastasized to a lymph node. Fortunately\, a new therapy that targeted both mutations had recently been developed\, and I was able to switch to Tagrisso earlier this year. \nPeople frequently think that I am “cured” because I don’t look like I have cancer. The reality is that I have cancer now and I always will. ~ Read more about Anne Phillips \nFounded by Draft and his late wife Keasha\, who died of lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 38\, Team Draft is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing badly needed research funding through its Campaign To Change The Face Of Lung Cancer\, which is committed to shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.” The centerpiece of Team Draft’s Campaign is its annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. \nAs Draft explains\, “the Super Bowl Challenge gives us a unique opportunity to use the overwhelming media coverage surrounding the Super Bowl as a platform to raise critical public awareness about lung cancer on an international level.  With the game as a backdrop\, we can use each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of lung cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.”  And Team Draft’s efforts are paying off. \n“The Super Bowl Challenge achieves amazing things in terms of public awareness and changing perceptions about lung cancer\,” says Dr. Ross Camidge\, the Director of Thoracic Oncology at Colorado University Cancer Center\, the cancer center where two of last year’s Super Bowl Challenge winners were treated. \nIn addition to raising critical public awareness\, the Super Bowl Challenge also raises funds for lung cancer organizations and treatment centers across North America.  Last year\, participants who raised more than $1\,000< during the Super Bowl Challenge were able to commit 50% of the funds they raised to a lung cancer organization or cancer center of their choice. \nThanks to the overwhelming success of our annual Super Bowl Challenge\, Team Draft is maintaining its commit to 50% if the survivors raise over $1\,000\, but if they raise over $5\,000\, their designated beneficiary will receive 80% with the remaining 20% going to support Team Draft’s mission to change the face of lung cancer. \n \nOf this aspect of the Super Bowl Challenge\, Dr. Camidge says\, “you need somebody working on the national level. You need somebody working on the local level. Everybody wins.” \nFor the survivors who participate\, the Super Bowl Challenge is so much more than just a fundraiser. \n“Team Draft has really helped boost our family’s spirits during this challenging time\,” says Dr. Lucy Kalanithi. In 2015\, Lucy and her husband\, Dr. Paul Kalanithi\, won Team Draft’s inaugural Super Bowl Challenge and were able to join Team Draft in Phoenix\, Arizona for Super Bowl 49.  Paul went on to write the bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air — a powerful and moving chronicle of his life and lung cancer journey — before passing away at the age of 37. \n2016 Super Bowl Challenge winner\, Kim Ringen says\, “As a lung cancer survivor\, I would highly recommend to anybody to put your hat in the ring because it is so uplifting to be associated with a group of people that are coming together to make a difference.” \nTo learn more about Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/2018SuperBowlChallenge \nSpecial thanks to NFL\, Astra Zeneca\, and all of our Team Draft supporters for helping make this experience possible. \nAbout Team Draft\nTeam Draft\, an initiative of the Chris Draft Family Foundation\, is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing research funding by shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.”  Despite the fact that between 20\,000 and 30\,000 people who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year\, the smoking stigma negatively impacts lung cancer research funding\, Team Draft is out to change all that. To learn more about Team Draft\, share your story\, or make a donation\, please visit www.teamdraft.org.
URL:https://www.teamdraft.org/event/anne-phillips-is-heading-to-the-college-football-national-championship/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180111T080000
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SUMMARY:Linda Wortman #SuperBowlBound Reception at Mayo Clinic
DESCRIPTION:View Photos  \nRochester\, MN. Our co-founder\, Chris Draft\, traveled to Rochester\, MN to congratulate Mayo Clinic lung cancer survivor Linda Wortman on her fundraising efforts in Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge that earned her a trip to the Taste of the NFL and Super Bowl 52. Linda’s efforts were celebrated at a reception hosted by The Mayo Clinic Thoracic Team at Dooley’s Pub in Rochester\, MN. \n \nThis is a dream come true.  For the past 10 years\, it has been my goal to raise awareness of lung cancer.  And now\, by winning the Team Draft Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, I feel it is possible!!  We can provide much needed money for lung cancer research at Mayo Clinic and save more lungs and more lives! ~Linda Wortman \nHere’s Linda’s story\, in her own words:  “In 2008\, I received a phone call that changed the course of my life.  For 35 years\, I worked as a flight attendant.  I was preparing to depart from Minneapolis for Amsterdam when my physician\, whom I had seen just 2 days before for my annual physical\, called and requested that I return to Mayo Clinic immediately because of something he saw on my CT scan. \nSo I returned to Mayo. Sitting in his office looking at x-ray images of my lungs\, time froze as my physician said\, ‘You have lung cancer.’ I snapped at him: “Doctor\, you have the wrong person!  I have never smoked!”  That was the day I realized anyone with lungs can get lung cancer.” \nAfter successful surgery at Mayo Clinic\, and with the support of her loving husband\, Jerry\, Linda battled through\, and is now on a mission to break the stereotype that lung cancer is only for smokers.  Linda set a goal to raise awareness about lung cancer and to share with people around the world that there is quality of life after a cancer diagnosis.  Since 2012\, and with most of her left lung missing\, Linda completed a 5K race in all 50 states\, a 10K race on four continents\, and in August of 2016\, she climbed to the summit of Kilimanjaro\, the largest mountain in Africa\, and the fourth tallest peak in the world. \nIn 2014\, Linda and Jerry co-founded the non-profit organization Wortman Lung Cancer   Foundation.  Through this foundation\, the Wortmans host Running Lungs Run/Walk events and the #First2Burst Lung Challenge to raise desperately-needed funds for lung cancer research. \nLinda has always been an example of her favorite saying\, “If you can imagine it\, you can achieve it; if you can dream it\, you can become it.” Linda dreamed of being one of Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivor Super Bowl Challenge winners and now she is.  This will enable her to continue spreading her positive message and raising funds to save lungs and lives through research. \nJanuary 11\, 2018 marks the 10-year anniversary of my lung cancer surgery and of being a survivor.  I am honored to be a 2018 Super Bowl Challenge winner and I want to be a strong advocate and positive presence representing all survivors throughout the remaining weeks of the Challenge.  I’m looking forward to participating in a number of events during Super Bowl week\, especially the Team Draft Family Foundation Survivors’ dinner.  Please join me and survivors from around Minnesota as we band together to blow lung cancer away!! ~ Linda
URL:https://www.teamdraft.org/event/linda-wortman-superbowlbound-reception-at-mayo-clinic/
LOCATION:Dooley’s Pub Rochester
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SUMMARY:Teri Kennedy Raised for the EGFR Resisters
DESCRIPTION:Thank you Team Draft for this opportunity to raise awareness about lung cancer\, allow survivors to tell their stories and be seen.  I have always been a football fan and a fighter and with Team TKO – “Teri Knocks Out lung cancer” I am doing everything I can to tackle this disease. ~  Teri Kennedy  \nSacramento\, CA. UC Davis lung cancer survivor Teri Kennedy asked Atlanta lung cancer survivor Patty Watkins to represent her at the 2018 NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando\, Florida on January 28\, 2018. Teri earned a trip to the NFL Pro Bowl by being the third highest fundraiser in our 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. TEAM TKO – Knock out Lung Cancer will be able to continue to raise funds for the EGFR Resisters group until February 5\, 2018. \n \nI am a UC Davis lung cancer survivor\, and I have the EGFR mutation driving my lung cancer.   I have started with other survivors and some top clinicians in the field\, The EGFR Resisters\, to support those diagnosed with this particular form of lung cancer\, and push forward research and more treatment options.  The funds raised through The Super Bowl Challenge will go directly toward this goal.\n\nThank you Team Draft for this awesome opportunity to represent the EGFR Resisters.  ~ Read more about Teri Kennedy \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFounded by Draft and his late wife Keasha\, who died of lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 38\, Team Draft is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing badly needed research funding through its Campaign To Change The Face Of Lung Cancer\, which is committed to shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.” The centerpiece of Team Draft’s Campaign is its annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. \nAs Draft explains\, “the Super Bowl Challenge gives us a unique opportunity to use the overwhelming media coverage surrounding the Super Bowl as a platform to raise critical public awareness about lung cancer on an international level.  With the game as a backdrop\, we can use each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of lung cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.”  And Team Draft’s efforts are paying off. \n“The Super Bowl Challenge achieves amazing things in terms of public awareness and changing perceptions about lung cancer\,” says Dr. Ross Camidge\, the Director of Thoracic Oncology at Colorado University Cancer Center\, the cancer center where two of last year’s Super Bowl Challenge winners were treated. \nIn addition to raising critical public awareness\, the Super Bowl Challenge also raises funds for lung cancer organizations and treatment centers across North America.  Last year\, participants who raised more than $1\,000< during the Super Bowl Challenge were able to commit 50% of the funds they raised to a lung cancer organization or cancer center of their choice. \nThanks to the overwhelming success of our annual Super Bowl Challenge\, Team Draft is maintaining its commit to 50% if the survivors raise over $1\,000\, but if they raise over $5\,000\, their designated beneficiary will receive 80% with the remaining 20% going to support Team Draft’s mission to change the face of lung cancer. \nOf this aspect of the Super Bowl Challenge\, Dr. Camidge says\, “you need somebody working on the national level. You need somebody working on the local level. Everybody wins.” \nFor the survivors who participate\, the Super Bowl Challenge is so much more than just a fundraiser. \n“Team Draft has really helped boost our family’s spirits during this challenging time\,” says Dr. Lucy Kalanithi. In 2015\, Lucy and her husband\, Dr. Paul Kalanithi\, won Team Draft’s inaugural Super Bowl Challenge and were able to join Team Draft in Phoenix\, Arizona for Super Bowl 49.  Paul went on to write the bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air — a powerful and moving chronicle of his life and lung cancer journey — before passing away at the age of 37. \n2016 Super Bowl Challenge winner\, Kim Ringen says\, “As a lung cancer survivor\, I would highly recommend to anybody to put your hat in the ring because it is so uplifting to be associated with a group of people that are coming together to make a difference.” \nTo learn more about Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/2018SuperBowlChallenge \nSpecial thanks to NFL\, Astra Zeneca\, and all of our Team Draft supporters for helping make this experience possible. \nAbout Team Draft\nTeam Draft\, an initiative of the Chris Draft Family Foundation\, is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing research funding by shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.”  Despite the fact that between 20\,000 and 30\,000 people who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year\, the smoking stigma negatively impacts lung cancer research funding\, Team Draft is out to change all that. To learn more about Team Draft\, share your story\, or make a donation\, please visit www.teamdraft.org. \n 
URL:https://www.teamdraft.org/event/teri-kennedy-is-heading-to-the-nfl-pro-bowl/
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SUMMARY:Patty Watkins Attended the 2018 NFL Pro Bowl
DESCRIPTION:View Photo Gallery \n Orlando\, FL. Our third place winner\, Teri Kennedy\, asked ATL lung cancer survivor Patty Watkins to represent her at the 2018 NFL Pro Bowl. Patty Watkins raised for the Cabral Franklin Lung Cancer Fund at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in our 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge.\nPatty and her husband\, Kent Watkins\, traveled to Orlando with our co-founder\, Chris Draft\, and Team Draft representative Lee Jackson. During the trip\, Patty was able to meet with survivors and advocates from Jacksonville\, Tampa and Orlando\, Florida\, along with visit the historic Kennedy Space Center in Titusville\, FL. \n \nFounded by Draft and his late wife Keasha\, who died of lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 38\, Team Draft is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing badly needed research funding through its Campaign To Change The Face Of Lung Cancer\, which is committed to shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.” The centerpiece of Team Draft’s Campaign is its annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. \nAs Draft explains\, “the Super Bowl Challenge gives us a unique opportunity to use the overwhelming media coverage surrounding the Super Bowl as a platform to raise critical public awareness about lung cancer on an international level. With the game as a backdrop\, we can use each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of lung cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.” And Team Draft’s efforts are paying off. \n“The Super Bowl Challenge achieves amazing things in terms of public awareness and changing perceptions about lung cancer\,” says Dr. Ross Camidge\, the Director of Thoracic Oncology at Colorado University Cancer Center\, the cancer center where two of last year’s Super Bowl Challenge winners were treated.\nIn addition to raising critical public awareness\, the Super Bowl Challenge also raises funds for lung cancer organizations and treatment centers across North America. Last year\, participants who raised more than $1\,000< during the Super Bowl Challenge were able to commit 50% of the funds they raised to a lung cancer organization or cancer center of their choice. \nThanks to the overwhelming success of our annual Super Bowl Challenge\, Team Draft is maintaining its commit to 50% if the survivors raise over $1\,000\, but if they raise over $5\,000\, their designated beneficiary will receive 80% with the remaining 20% going to support Team Draft’s mission to change the face of lung cancer.\nOf this aspect of the Super Bowl Challenge\, Dr. Camidge says\, “you need somebody working on the national level. You need somebody working on the local level. Everybody wins.” \nFor the survivors who participate\, the Super Bowl Challenge is so much more than just a fundraiser. “Team Draft has really helped boost our family’s spirits during this challenging time\,” says Dr. Lucy Kalanithi. In 2015\, Lucy and her husband\, Dr. Paul Kalanithi\, won Team Draft’s inaugural Super Bowl Challenge and were able to join Team Draft in Phoenix\, Arizona for Super Bowl 49. Paul went on to write the bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air — a powerful and moving chronicle of his life and lung cancer journey — before passing away at the age of 37. \n2016 Super Bowl Challenge winner\, Kim Ringen says\, “As a lung cancer survivor\, I would highly recommend to anybody to put your hat in the ring because it is so uplifting to be associated with a group of people that are coming together to make a difference.” \n\nTo learn more about Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/2018SuperBowlChallenge \nSpecial thanks to NFL\, Astra Zeneca\, the Taste of the NFL and all of our Team Draft supporters for helping make this experience possible. \nAbout Team Draft \nTeam Draft\, an initiative of the Chris Draft Family Foundation\, is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing research funding by shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.” Despite the fact that between 20\,000 and 30\,000 people who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year\, the smoking stigma negatively impacts lung cancer research funding\, Team Draft is out to change all that. To learn more about Team Draft\, share your story\, or make a donation\, please visit www.teamdraft.org.
URL:https://www.teamdraft.org/event/patty-watkins-attended-the-2018-nfl-pro-bowl/
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SUMMARY:Matt Arensdorf Attended Super Bowl 52
DESCRIPTION:View Photos  \nWe are so happy and thankful for the money we were able to raise through the Super Bowl Challenge! We are pumped to be going to the Super Bowl!! \nThe Super Bowl challenge is an amazing way to not only raise funds for lung cancer research but bring much-needed awareness to the disease. Getting to go to the super bowl is the cherry on top! We are incredibly excited for this opportunity and can’t thank everyone enough who helped us get here. ~  Matt Arensdorf  \nDenver\, CO. Lung cancer survivor Matt Arensdorf and\, his wife\, Jen are heading to Minnesota for Super Bowl LII on February 4\, 2018 and the 2018 Taste of the NFL in St. Paul\, Minnesota on February 3\, 2018. Matt earned a trip to the Super Bowl and the Taste of the NFL by being one for the top fundraisers in our 2018 Lung Cancer Super Bowl Challenge. Team Arensdorf will be able to continue raising funds for the Lung Cancer Colorado Fund at the University of Colorado until the day after the Super Bowl. \n \nLife couldn’t have been any better in early 2016. My wife\, Jen\, and I had just celebrated the birth of our daughter\, Grace. I had an amazing wife and a perfect little girl. To put a cherry on top the Denver Broncos had just won the super bowl. Jen and I\, like all new parents\, were navigating the uncharted waters of parenting. Trying to figure out all the little things like how do we get Grace to sleep through the night and is she eating enough? We were also making plans for our future with our new baby. Picking out a daycare\, setting up her college fund\, determining how may siblings she’d have and how close in age we wanted them to be. Then all those questions and plans were put on hold. ~ Read more about Matt Arensdorf  \nFounded by Draft and his late wife Keasha\, who died of lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 38\, Team Draft is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing badly needed research funding through its Campaign To Change The Face Of Lung Cancer\, which is committed to shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.” The centerpiece of Team Draft’s Campaign is its annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. \nAs Draft explains\, “the Super Bowl Challenge gives us a unique opportunity to use the overwhelming media coverage surrounding the Super Bowl as a platform to raise critical public awareness about lung cancer on an international level.  With the game as a backdrop\, we can use each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of lung cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.”  And Team Draft’s efforts are paying off. \n“The Super Bowl Challenge achieves amazing things in terms of public awareness and changing perceptions about lung cancer\,” says Dr. Ross Camidge\, the Director of Thoracic Oncology at Colorado University Cancer Center\, the cancer center where two of last year’s Super Bowl Challenge winners were treated. \nIn addition to raising critical public awareness\, the Super Bowl Challenge also raises funds for lung cancer organizations and treatment centers across North America.  Last year\, participants who raised more than $1\,000< during the Super Bowl Challenge were able to commit 50% of the funds they raised to a lung cancer organization or cancer center of their choice. \nThanks to the overwhelming success of our annual Super Bowl Challenge\, Team Draft is maintaining its commit to 50% if the survivors raise over $1\,000\, but if they raise over $5\,000\, their designated beneficiary will receive 80% with the remaining 20% going to support Team Draft’s mission to change the face of lung cancer. \n \nOf this aspect of the Super Bowl Challenge\, Dr. Camidge says\, “you need somebody working on the national level. You need somebody working on the local level. Everybody wins.” \nFor the survivors who participate\, the Super Bowl Challenge is so much more than just a fundraiser. \n“Team Draft has really helped boost our family’s spirits during this challenging time\,” says Dr. Lucy Kalanithi. In 2015\, Lucy and her husband\, Dr. Paul Kalanithi\, won Team Draft’s inaugural Super Bowl Challenge and were able to join Team Draft in Phoenix\, Arizona for Super Bowl 49.  Paul went on to write the bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air — a powerful and moving chronicle of his life and lung cancer journey — before passing away at the age of 37. \n2016 Super Bowl Challenge winner\, Kim Ringen says\, “As a lung cancer survivor\, I would highly recommend to anybody to put your hat in the ring because it is so uplifting to be associated with a group of people that are coming together to make a difference.” \nTo learn more about Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/2018SuperBowlChallenge \nSpecial thanks to NFL\, Astra Zeneca\, and all of our Team Draft supporters for helping make this experience possible. \nAbout Team Draft\nTeam Draft\, an initiative of the Chris Draft Family Foundation\, is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing research funding by shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.”  Despite the fact that between 20\,000 and 30\,000 people who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year\, the smoking stigma negatively impacts lung cancer research funding\, Team Draft is out to change all that. To learn more about Team Draft\, share your story\, or make a donation\, please visit www.teamdraft.org.
URL:https://www.teamdraft.org/event/matt-arensdorf-is-heading-to-super-bowl-52/
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SUMMARY:Linda Wortman Attended Super Bowl 52
DESCRIPTION: View Photos \nThis is a dream come true.  For the past 10 years\, it has been my goal to raise awareness of lung cancer.  And now\, by winning the Team Draft Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, I feel it is possible!!  We can provide much needed money for lung cancer research at Mayo Clinic and save more lungs and more lives! ~Linda Wortman \nRochester\, MN. Lung cancer survivor Linda Wortman and\, her husband\, Jerry are heading to Minnesota for Super Bowl LII on February 4\, 2018 and the 2018 Taste of the NFL in St. Paul\, Minnesota on February 3\, 2018. Linda earned a trip to the Super Bowl and the Taste of the NFL by being one for the top fundraisers in our 2018 Lung Cancer Super Bowl Challenge. Team Run Like L were able to continue raising funds for the Mayo Clinic Lung Cancer Program until the day after the Super Bowl. \n \nI am a 10 Year Lung Cancer SURVIVOR & I Never Smoked! I want to create awareness that Lung Cancer is ‘AnyBody’s’ Disease’…To Save Lungs & Lives & ‘Blow Lung Cancer Away’ by donating funds to Mayo Clinic Lung Research. \nDue to UNFAIR STIGMA Lung Cancer Research is the gravely underfunded!  I decided it is time to “change the face of lung cancer”. ~ read more about Linda Wortman  \nFounded by Draft and his late wife Keasha\, who died of lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 38\, Team Draft is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing badly needed research funding through its Campaign To Change The Face Of Lung Cancer\, which is committed to shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.” The centerpiece of Team Draft’s Campaign is its annual Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge. \nAs Draft explains\, “the Super Bowl Challenge gives us a unique opportunity to use the overwhelming media coverage surrounding the Super Bowl as a platform to raise critical public awareness about lung cancer on an international level.  With the game as a backdrop\, we can use each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of lung cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.”  And Team Draft’s efforts are paying off. \n“The Super Bowl Challenge achieves amazing things in terms of public awareness and changing perceptions about lung cancer\,” says Dr. Ross Camidge\, the Director of Thoracic Oncology at Colorado University Cancer Center\, the cancer center where two of last year’s Super Bowl Challenge winners were treated. \nIn addition to raising critical public awareness\, the Super Bowl Challenge also raises funds for lung cancer organizations and treatment centers across North America.  Last year\, participants who raised more than $1\,000< during the Super Bowl Challenge were able to commit 50% of the funds they raised to a lung cancer organization or cancer center of their choice. \nThanks to the overwhelming success of our annual Super Bowl Challenge\, Team Draft is maintaining its commit to 50% if the survivors raise over $1\,000\, but if they raise over $5\,000\, their designated beneficiary will receive 80% with the remaining 20% going to support Team Draft’s mission to change the face of lung cancer. \nOf this aspect of the Super Bowl Challenge\, Dr. Camidge says\, “you need somebody working on the national level. You need somebody working on the local level. Everybody wins.” \nFor the survivors who participate\, the Super Bowl Challenge is so much more than just a fundraiser. \n“Team Draft has really helped boost our family’s spirits during this challenging time\,” says Dr. Lucy Kalanithi. In 2015\, Lucy and her husband\, Dr. Paul Kalanithi\, won Team Draft’s inaugural Super Bowl Challenge and were able to join Team Draft in Phoenix\, Arizona for Super Bowl 49.  Paul went on to write the bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air — a powerful and moving chronicle of his life and lung cancer journey — before passing away at the age of 37. \n2016 Super Bowl Challenge winner\, Kim Ringen says\, “As a lung cancer survivor\, I would highly recommend to anybody to put your hat in the ring because it is so uplifting to be associated with a group of people that are coming together to make a difference.” \nTo learn more about Team Draft’s 2018 Lung Cancer Survivors Super Bowl Challenge\, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/2018SuperBowlChallenge \nSpecial thanks to NFL\, Astra Zeneca\, the Taste of the NFL and all of our Team Draft supporters for helping make this experience possible. \nAbout Team Draft\nTeam Draft\, an initiative of the Chris Draft Family Foundation\, is dedicated to raising lung cancer awareness and increasing research funding by shattering the misconception that lung cancer is a “smoker’s disease.”  Despite the fact that between 20\,000 and 30\,000 people who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year\, the smoking stigma negatively impacts lung cancer research funding\, Team Draft is out to change all that. To learn more about Team Draft\, share your story\, or make a donation\, please visit www.teamdraft.org.
URL:https://www.teamdraft.org/event/linda-wortman-is-heading-to-the-super-bowl-52/
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