Doherty joins call for increased cancer research funding

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From SMUMustangs.com:

SMU's Matt Doherty Among College Basketball Coaches Teaming Up with Patients to Call for Increased Cancer Research Funding
Coaches vs. Cancer Brings Together Elite NCAA Basketball Coaches

Sept. 26, 2011

WASHINGTON (SMU) --- SMU men's basketball coach Matt Doherty is among coaches from four Division I universities that are putting rivalries aside to team up with cancer advocates to urge Congress to protect federal funding for cancer research and prevention programs. Joining with cancer survivors and advocates from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the coaches will lead a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday, September 27, to emphasize that the federal investment in cancer research, prevention and early detection programs is vitally important to helping people prevent and fight the disease.

The coaches are members of Coaches vs. Cancer®, a nationwide collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches. This group of more than 2,000 Division I, II and III college basketball coaches has made the commitment to beat cancer, raising nearly $50 million since its inception to fund cancer research. Additionally, more than 100 high school coaches also participate in the program.

Who: - Coach Matt Brown (Missouri-Kansas City), accompanied by his 12 year old daughter, Ally, a thyroid cancer survivor
- Coach Jamie Dixon (Pittsburgh)
- Coach Matt Doherty (SMU)
- Coach Paul Hewitt (George Mason)
- John Seffrin, PhD, CEO, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
- Christopher W. Hansen, president, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

When: Tuesday, September 27, 10:00 AM ET / 9:00 AM CT

Where: West Front of the U.S. Capitol, between the Reflecting Pool and 3rd Street
(rain location: HELP Committee Room, 430 Senate Dirksen Office Building)

ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.acscan.org.

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It's a good cause that may save me, if I get cancer waiting for the schedule