| There is no known cure for breast cancer. More than | | | | and I are committed to do everything possible to |
| 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer | | | | eradicate this disease," says Oscar-winner Michael |
| this year worldwide. The incidence of breast cancer | | | | Douglas. Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, "I lost |
| has nearly tripled in the past 50 years. A woman's | | | | my aunt to breast cancer about two years ago and |
| lifetime risk has increased from 1 in 20 in the 1950's to 1 | | | | my very good friend Liz to ovarian around the same |
| in 7 today. Scientists don't know why most women | | | | time," says Wilson, who is married to Tom Hanks. "I've |
| get breast cancer, yet breast cancer is the most | | | | seen what these cancers are really like and we have |
| frequent tumor found in women the world over. What | | | | to support more research." Steven Spielberg and his |
| can a woman do when fate has played a cruel joke | | | | wife Kate Capshaw, "Steven and I are passionate |
| and a woman's very life can be in question? What do | | | | about improving women's health," says Capshaw." |
| you do when an intimate part of your body becomes | | | | Stars that we know that are interested in supporting |
| host to an assassin, a foreign element assigned to | | | | cancer research including breast cancer research |
| debilitate, maim and kill? | | | | include: Melissa Etheridge, Charlie Sheen, Kirk and Anne |
| A woman who dies of breast cancer is robbed of an | | | | Douglas, Sting and wife Trudie Styler, Larry King, |
| average of nearly 20 years of her life. Breast cancer | | | | Sylvester Stallone, Nicole Kidman, Bon Jovi, Julia |
| knows no social boundaries. It's a disease that can | | | | Roberts, Jack Lemmon, Dustin Hoffman, Denzel |
| affect anyone. Some prominent women whose lives | | | | Washington, Warren Beatty, Candice Bergen, Angie |
| that have been touched by breast cancer include: | | | | Dickinson, Sally Field, Larry Hagman, Merv Griffin, |
| Anastacia, singer only 29 years old! Jill Eikenberry | | | | Carroll O'Connor and his wife, Nancy, Robert DiNiro, |
| actress age 52; Ann Jillian, 48, Actress; Peggy Fleming | | | | Cybill Shepherd, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, |
| age 49 figure skater; Kate Jackson age 50 (Charlies | | | | Sean Penn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Carmen Electra, Gene |
| Angels); Olivia Newton-John age 50 actress singer; | | | | Wilder, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Michael J. Fox, Tom |
| Patti LaBelle, age 57, singer; Diahann Carroll, age 63 | | | | Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo Di Caprio, Sigourney |
| Actress/singer; Rue McClanahan, Hollywood actress, | | | | Weaver, Bruce Willis, Billy Joel, Tim McGraw, Robbin |
| Rue is best known for her portrayal of Blanche on the | | | | Williams, Elizabeth Hurley, Tiger Woods, Madonna, |
| hit sitcom "The Golden Girls;" Shirley Temple Black age | | | | Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Will Smith, Katie Couric, |
| 70 Actress/singer; Betty Ford, Former First Lady; | | | | George Clooney, Mike Myers, Ben affleck, Ron |
| Nancy Reagan age 77 former first lady; Melissa | | | | Howard, Brian Grazer, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, |
| Etheridge age 43 singer; Lynn Redgrave, age 59, | | | | Tommy Lee Jones, Al Pacino, P Diddy, George Lucas, |
| actress; Edie Falco Sopranos star, Tami Agassi, sister | | | | Oliver Stone, Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears, |
| to tennis star Andre Agassi, and the beautiful Suzanne | | | | Barbara Streisand, Gene Hackman, Fred Thompson , |
| Summers actress. Dusty Springfield the singer, died | | | | Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Donald Trump, Donald |
| from breast cancer at age 59. Breast cancer also | | | | Sutherland, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy |
| took the lives of Linda McCartney and Jill Ireland. This is | | | | Chase, Sidney Poitier, Tom Arnold, Quincy Jones, |
| a disease that has plagued women for centuries. The | | | | Eminem, Shaquille Oneal, Adam Sandler, Steven |
| mother of Louis XIV of France died of breast cancer | | | | Soderbergh, Bono/U-2, Patti LaBelle, Rosie O'Donnell, |
| in 1666. These high rates of breast cancer are not | | | | Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Actor Rob Lowe, he |
| acceptable to the women of the world and must be | | | | was moved to serve as a spokesperson for the Lee |
| met with scientific research that provides results. | | | | National Denim Day, which raised money for breast |
| Despite over a decade of research, and more than | | | | cancer research, because his grandmother and |
| $1.7 billion spent, hundreds of women worldwide are | | | | great-grandmother both suffered from the disease, |
| dying from breast cancer every day. Yet doctors | | | | Sharon Osbourne, Britt Ekland, Westlife, Simon Cowell, |
| don't know how breast cancer starts or how to cure it. | | | | Emma Thompson, Philip Treacy, Geri Halliwell, Paul |
| Doctors are still approaching treatment for breast | | | | McCartney, and Lance Armstrong. |
| cancer in the same old fashioned ways: surgery, | | | | Country music stars who support breast cancer |
| radiation, and chemotherapy. Barbaric treatments...And | | | | research include: Wynona Judd, Amy Grant, Donny |
| scientists keep doing the same old redundant research | | | | Osmond, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, Shania |
| that's simply not working. Over 30 US federal agencies | | | | Twain, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, George Strait, |
| and dozens of foundations, pharmaceutical and biotech | | | | Toby Keith, LeAnn Rimes, the Dixie Chicks, Lonestar, |
| companies are conducting or funding research, but: No | | | | Brad Paisley, Diamond Rio, Trick Pony, Alan Jackson, |
| one knows how much money is being raised every | | | | SHeDAISY, Terri Clark, Lee Ann Womack, Phil Vassar, |
| year. No one knows how much money is being spent | | | | Buddy Jewell, Joe Nichols, Amy Grant, Anne Murray, |
| every year. No one knows where the money is going. | | | | Vince Gill, Randy Travis, Tracy Lawrence, Tammy |
| Meanwhile, mothers, sisters and daughters are dying-at | | | | Cochran, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood, George |
| a rate of nearly 110 women a day. It's time for a new | | | | Jones, Rascal Flatts, Emerson Drive, Bering Strait, |
| approach to cure this deadly killer. We don't want you | | | | Brooks & Dunn, Clint Black, Steve Wariner, Kenny |
| to have to under go surgery, radiation or | | | | Rogers, Alabama, Faith Hill and Sara Evans, Richard |
| chemotherapy. | | | | Marx, Anne Cochran, Lee Ann Womack, Terri Clark, |
| A global action is the only answer to rising cancer | | | | Dave Koz, Sophie B. Hawkins, Jonatha Brooke, Heart's |
| deaths. Someone needs to answer the action call on | | | | Anne and Nancy Wilson and Mercy Me. |
| all types of cancer. Newly formed International | | | | We are also hoping that more of my celebrity friends |
| Celebrity Cancer Research Foundation has answered | | | | will come forward as spokespersons and spread their |
| that call on global cancer. ICCRF's war on cancer will | | | | wings to help support our breast cancer research. My |
| be fought with the power of fame with celebrities | | | | friends and acquaintances include: Steven Seagal, |
| from all 192 countries of the world. But the war on | | | | Charlie Sheen (Charlie, has done a great job for breast |
| cancer can only be won with the support from the | | | | cancer research by leading an effort in the fight |
| citizens of the world. Each and every one of you can | | | | against breast cancer, by encouraging the American |
| answer your personal call to action to help fight the | | | | public to take part in a National Denim Day), Wesley |
| global war on cancer by supporting ICCRF's battle on | | | | Snipes, Danny Glover, Erik Estrada, Tom Arnold, Dolph |
| the war on cancer now. | | | | Lundgren, Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton, Usher, Clint Black, |
| Billionaires whom we have been recommended that | | | | Hulk Hogan, Ivana Trump, Clint Black, John Secada, |
| we should contact for support include: Paul Allen, Bill | | | | Sylvester Stalone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike |
| and Melinda Gates, Jon Huntsman, William and Alice | | | | Reno, Eddie Money, Paul Hogan, Jay Leno, Danny |
| Goodman, Ann Lurie, Jamie and Karen Moyer, Harold | | | | Glover, Danny Aiello, Larry Hagman, Lee Majors, |
| C. Simmons, Alfred Mann, Sumner M. Redstone, | | | | Tyson Becford, Jennifer Tilly, David Hasselhoff, Richard |
| Michael Milton and the Palm beach billionaires. There | | | | Branson, Brendan Fraser, Cindy Crawford, (whose |
| are simply too many billionaires to mention them all. The | | | | grandmother died from breast cancer), Cher, Demi |
| combined wealth of the three Microsoft billionaires | | | | Moore, Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and other stars |
| alone is more than ten times the amount spent by the | | | | that I have had the good fortune of meeting in person |
| U.S. Federal Government on research to fight cancer | | | | and others celebrities that I hope to meet in the future. |
| and other deadly diseases. We could use help from | | | | How about Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Pierce |
| the media with publicity stories, ads and promotions to | | | | Brosnon, Mick Jagger and Pamela Lee Anderson. |
| get the word out. We are particularly interested in | | | | (Photos of Denny and the stars can be viewed at his |
| looking for assistance from the billionaires of the world; | | | | promotional group listed below.) We have star friends |
| there are approximately 600 in the world. Billionaires like | | | | who are bigger than life and they are ready to |
| Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google billionaires), | | | | become our spokespersons. But we still need your |
| Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, and Oprah Winfrey and | | | | donations to get our celebrities to international print and |
| others who control the media could get our life-saving | | | | broadcast ads to get the word out. We, the people of |
| message to the world fast. | | | | the world can cure breast cancer as well as all the |
| Here's what some very influential and famous people | | | | cancers of the world. |
| have to say about breast cancer research. Michael | | | | Please feel free to publish this article and resource box |
| Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta Jones, "Catherine | | | | in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. |