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Stand Up to Cancer, the Glossary

Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) is a charitable program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF).^[1]

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2008 television specials
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Abseiling

Abseiling, also known as rappelling, is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope.

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Alan Carr

Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian, broadcaster and writer.

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American Association for Cancer Research

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's oldest and largest professional association related to cancer research.

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer.

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AMI-tv

AMI-tv is a Canadian, English-language, digital cable specialty channel owned by the non-profit organization Accessible Media.

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Antoni Ribas (professor)

Antoni Ribas is a Spanish American physician–scientist.

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Arul Chinnaiyan

Arul M. Chinnaiyan is a Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology and professor of pathology and urology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

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Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organisation.

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Carl H. June

Carl H. June (born 1953) is an American immunologist and oncologist. He is currently the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is most well known for his research on T cell therapies for the treatment of several forms of cancers.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charles S. Fuchs

Charles S. Fuchs is an American oncologist.

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Charles Sawyers

Charles L. Sawyers (born 1959) is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator who holds the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).

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CHCH-DT

CHCH-DT (channel 11) is an independent television station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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CHEK-DT

CHEK-DT (channel 6) is an independent television station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, serving Vancouver Island and Greater Vancouver.

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Christian Jessen

Christian Spencer Jessen (born 4 March 1977) is an English celebrity doctor, television personality, and writer.

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Citytv

Citytv (sometimes shortened to City, which was the network's official branding from 2012 to 2018) is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications.

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CJON-DT

CJON-DT (channel 21), branded on-air as NTV (short for Newfoundland Television), is an independent television station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, owned by Newfoundland Broadcasting Company Ltd.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Craig B. Thompson

Craig B. Thompson (born 1953) is an American cell biologist and a former president of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Crystal Mackall

Crystal L. Mackall (born August 21, 1960) is an American physician and immunologist. She is currently the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Stanford University.

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CTV Life Channel

CTV Life Channel is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Bell Media.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network.

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Daniel A. Haber

Daniel A. Haber is the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a professor of oncology at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

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Daniel Von Hoff

Daniel D. Von Hoff is the physician in chief and director of translational research at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and current Virginia G. Piper Distinguished Chair for Innovative Cancer Research at HonorHealth Clinical Research Institute.

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Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter.

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Dennis Slamon

Dennis Joseph Slamon (born August 6, 1948), is an American oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA.

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Drew Pardoll

Andrew Mark Pardoll is Director of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Abeloff Professor of Oncology, Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine.

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Dutch Cancer Society

The Dutch Cancer Society (DCS; in Dutch: 'KWF Kankerbestrijding') is a Dutch Society committed to fight cancer by scientific research, education, patient support and fundraising in cooperation with volunteers, donors, patients, doctors and researchers. Stand Up to Cancer and Dutch Cancer Society are cancer fundraisers.

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Elizabeth Jaffee

Elizabeth M. Jaffee is an American oncologist specializing in pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy.

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Entertainment Industry Foundation

The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), based in Los Angeles, United States, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization of the entertainment industry. Stand Up to Cancer and entertainment Industry Foundation are charities based in California.

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Fight Network

Fight Network is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Gemcitabine

Gemcitabine, sold under the brand name Gemzar, among others, is a chemotherapy medication used to treat cancers.

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Gerard Evan

Gerard Ian Evan FRS, FMedSci (born 17 August 1955) is a British biologist and, since May 2022, Professor of Cancer Biology at King's College London and a principal group leader in the Francis Crick Institute.

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Global Television Network

The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network.

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Gordon B. Mills

Gordon B. Mills is the Wayne and Julie Drinkward Endowed Chair in Precision Oncology, Director of Precision Oncology, Director of SMMART Trials and Professor in Cell, Development and Cancer Biology in the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress and businesswoman.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Hans Bos

Johannes Lukas "Hans" Bos (born 16 June 1950) is a Dutch biochemist and cancer researcher.

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Hans Clevers

Johannes (Hans) Carolus Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher.

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Heron Tower

Salesforce Tower, 110 Bishopsgate (formerly, and still commonly known as, Heron Tower) is a commercial skyscraper in London.

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Hollywood Suite

Hollywood Suite is a group of four Canadian specialty channels, each either majority-owned or wholly owned by Hollywood Suite Inc., a privately held broadcasting company based in Toronto, Ontario, founded by Jay Switzer Jeff Sackman, Michael McLaughlin, Cathern Tait, and David Kines.

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James P. Allison

James Patrick Allison (born August 7, 1948) is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

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Jeffrey Trent

Jeffrey M. Trent is the founding president and director of the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

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John M. Maris

John Matthew Maris is an American pediatric oncologist.

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Katie Couric

Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and presenter.

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Laura Ziskin

Laura Ellen ZiskinGale Research Company (2002).

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Lewis C. Cantley

Lewis C. Cantley (born February 20, 1949) is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism.

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Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research

The Lustgarten Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization foundation dedicated to advancing the research related to the diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of pancreatic cancer while raising public awareness and providing support to patients and their families.

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Mehmet Toner

Mehmet Toner (born 1958) is a Turkish biomedical engineer.

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National Comedy Awards

The National Comedy Awards (known as the British Comedy Awards from 1990 to 2014) is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom, celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Owen Witte

Owen Witte (born May 17, 1949) is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Palbociclib

Palbociclib, sold under the brand name Ibrance among others, is a medication developed by Pfizer for the treatment of HR-positive and HER2-negative breast cancer.

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Protein-bound paclitaxel

Protein-bound paclitaxel, also known as nanoparticle albumin–bound paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel, is an injectable formulation of paclitaxel used to treat breast cancer, lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, among others.

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Registered nurse

A registered nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated or successfully passed a nursing program from a recognized nursing school and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar government-authorized licensing body to obtain a nursing license.

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Ronald M. Evans

Ronald Mark Evans (born April 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Biologist, Professor and Head of the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory, and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

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Shelley Berger

Shelley L. Berger is the Daniel S. Och Professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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Sherry Lansing

Sherry Lansing (born Sherry Lee Duhl; July 31, 1944) is an American former film studio executive.

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Simultaneous substitution

Simultaneous substitution (also known as simsubbing or signal substitution) is a practice mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requiring broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) in Canada to distribute the signal of a local or regional over-the-air station in place of the signal of a foreign or non-local television station (typically one that is affiliated with a U.S.

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St. Baldrick's Foundation

The St. Stand Up to Cancer and St. Baldrick's Foundation are cancer charities in the United States and charities based in California.

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St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Stand Up to Cancer (UK)

Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) is the UK version of Stand Up to Cancer, a US charitable television telethon, broadcast between 2012 and 2018 on the Channel 4 network in the United Kingdom, and again from 2020. Stand Up to Cancer and Stand Up to Cancer (UK) are 2014 television specials and cancer fundraisers.

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Stephen B. Baylin

Stephen Bruce Baylin is the deputy director and associate director for research at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and medicine and chief of cancer biology of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Up_to_Cancer

Also known as Channel 4 stand up to cancer, SU2C, Stars at Your Service, Sutc.

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2008 television specials

2014 television specials

Cancer organizations based in Canada

International broadcasting

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