Stand Up to Cancer says its sixth celebrity-filled telethon was its most profitable but.
The group stated Sunday that the fundraiser obtained greater than $123 million in pledges from the U.S. and Canada.
Matt Damon, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jon Hamm and Winona Ryder had been among the many stars collaborating in Friday’s telecast. Musical performers included Stevie Wonder, Little Big Town and Charlie Wilson, a most cancers survivor.
Wonder paid tribute to Aretha Franklin, who died final month of pancreatic most cancers, with a medley together with “What the World Needs Now Is Love” and “Love’s in Need of Love Today.”
Bradley Cooper, whose father died of lung most cancers, was co-executive producer of the telethon, which was carried commercial-free by main broadcast networks and cable channels within the U.S. and Canada and on streaming platforms.
Cooper stated Stand Up to Cancer scientists are giving sufferers new hope they’ll grow to be long-term survivors.
The telecast included three sufferers who’ve benefited from analysis funded by the group, together with a former Marine Corps pilot with melanoma that unfold to his mind and a retired college trainer with pancreatic most cancers.
Stand Up to Cancer, a division of the philanthropic Entertainment Industry Foundation, was established in 2008 by media and leisure leaders to speed up analysis and get new therapies to sufferers rapidly.
Among different achievements, it’s funded analysis that has contributed to federal approval of 5 new most cancers therapies, together with for breast, ovarian, pancreatic and a few difficult-to-treat leukemias, the group stated.
Before the telecast, Stand Up to Cancer stated Thursday stated it has raised extra $480 million to fund revolutionary analysis.
Others who took half within the occasion included group co-founder Katie Couric, Mahershala Ali, Keith Urban, Josh Brolin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ken Jeong, Matthew McConaughey, John Oliver, Marlon Wayans and Keanu Reeves.
A replay of the present is obtainable on-line at StandUpToCancer.org/su2c-show.
