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Hollywood Stands Up To Cancer
Each year cancer kills more than a half million people in America alone. Through the new initiative Stand Up to Cancer, Hollywood industry giants are aiming to bring awareness to this fact and further aid in the fight against the disease. The organization’s first effort is a film challenge that will accept short films (less than three minutes) focusing on the subject of cancer, its effects and/or the battle against it.
“Stand Up To Cancer is an initiative of the entertainment industry and entertainment industry executives, so a film challenge was uniquely appropriate, since our whole ethos is about using creative expression and the media to galvanize the public to take action,” says Laura Ziskin, producer of such hits as Pretty Woman and Spider-Man as well as one of the organization’s Executive Leadershp Committee members. “Together with my colleagues Lauren Shuler Donner (producer, the X-Men movies), Sherry Lansing (former CEO of Paramount), Greg Mottola (director, Superbad), Julie Taymor (director, Across The Universe) and Robert Greenwald (producer-director, Outfoxed), I am looking forward to judging the entrants and seeing the creative results.”
Challenge entries can be in the form of animation, live action narrative or documentary and will be judged based on aspects of emotional impact, artistry and technical merits. The top three movies will premiere on Stand Up To Cancer’s Website.
All entries must be received by August 1, 2008. For more information visit www.standup2cancer.org/filmchallenge.
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- Comment by free health cards on 9/16/08 at 9:59 am
Performances like this are a heart warming thing to cancer victims, if the money will be given to foundations for cancer victims. Free Health Cards
- Comment by cancer blog on 10/26/09 at 11:24 pm
It really depends on the type of cancer. Generally a malignant tumor has a poorly defined border with a ragged appearance. The cells in the tumor grow uncontrollably because the cellular mechanism for regulating cell growth is missing. Cells can break off from the main tumor and colonies other parts of the body. A great deal of nutrition is needed to grow the tumors and therefore the patient can lose a lot of weight. New blood supplies grow into the tumor to supply it with oxygen and nutrition and further encourages growth. Multiple secondary tumors can appear. For example in colon cancer, cells colonies the liver first, then appear in the lungs.
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