The Great Dane is the face behind Collars for Cures, a company recently launched by a couple in Hollywood, Chris and Erica Nelson. They’ll donate 50% of all profits from collars sold to promote a cure for cancer via research by the American Association for Cancer Research Foundation (AACR).

CollarsForCures.com offers pet collars and human t-shirts in five sizes. Whether you’re hooking up a cat or  Great Dane, Collars for Cures will likely have the size you need.

Chris said that since Roxy garners attention nearly everywhere they go, he wanted to utilize that to help fight cancer, a disease that’s affected several of his family members and friends. He notes that strangers who see Roxy with the neon green collar often ask him where they can purchase one. So, the couple is excited to now offer them online to an international audience while donating 50% of all profits to cancer research.

Tamika Kim Harding, who works in Corporate Alliances for the AACR, said:

“The American Association for Cancer Research is very appreciative of Collars for Cures’ efforts to raise money for cancer research and provide a platform to spotlight our organization as the authoritative source of information about advances in the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. By accelerating the growth and spread of new knowledge about cancer, the AACR is on the front lines of the quest for prevention and cure.”

(Images via Collars for Cures)

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Great Dane Promoting Collars for Cures

A study published recently in the journal Cancer Research said:

Age-specific cancer mortality rates have been steadily declining in the United States since the early 1950s, beginning with children and young adults and now including all age groups. During the second half of the 20th century, each successive decade of births from 1925 to 1995 experienced a lower risk of cancer death than its predecessor at virtually every age for which such a comparison can be made. A major decline in cancer mortality has been occurring in the United States for the past 50 years, affecting birth cohorts born as long as 80 years ago.

There are many reasons that could be attributed to this decline in death, ranging from efforts towards cancer prevention, advances in cancer detection, and better cancer treatments.

For example, certain childhood cancers, such as leukemia or bone cancer, did not have a good survival rate in the mid-1900s, yet now, there are many adults who are childhood cancer survivors.

Colonoscopies have been able to detect many precancerous lesions, thereby avoiding the development of colon cancer. And, when colon cancer is discovered, the increasing number of screening colonoscopies is detecting the cancers early, when there still is a high chance of total recovery.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that we’re close to being free of the disease. Cancer is still the number two killer, after heart disease, says the World Health Organization.

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U.S. Cancer Deaths Dropping

Tickets can be purchased until September 30, 2009.

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The Art Doll raffle has begun!

Now is your chance to help Target decide how to distribute $3 million to charities. There are plenty of great choices, and some of them are related to heath care. 

Go to Target’s Facebook page to vote once per day until May 25.

Voting choices include:

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Must admit to voting for this one as they saved my younger brother’s life!)
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Feeding America
HandOn Network
Kids in Need
National Park Foundation
Operation Gratitude
Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Red Cross
Salvation Army

If you want to learn more about each choice, click on their profile at the Target Facebook page.

Happy voting! Please spread the word.

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Decide How Target Will Donate $3 Million

She announced that cancer was detected, that it probably had spread and that it is incurable.

Not curable, but treatable.

Which tells us that from now on, our National lexicon about Cancer may have changed.

When we hear the word Cancer…we might discuss it with our loved ones in a different way…in much the same way as we discuss Diabetes.

In other words, it might be possible for Ms. Edwards to live with Cancer, operative word: Live.

With medications, therapies and continued efforts within the medical and research communities for a cure…Mrs. Edwards could find herself in the White House some day.

Godspeed.

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Elizabeth Edwards Announces Cancer Recurrence