The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation

The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation Third Annual ‘Addario Lectureship Award” Announced

Award to Recognize Luminaries in the Quest to Eradicate Lung Cancer

San Francisco, Jan 4, 2010/PRNewswire-USNewswire/–The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (BJALCF) today announced the winner of the 2010 Addario Lectureship Award, which Read More

Research yields new agent for some drug-resistant non-small cell lung cancers

Pasi Antero Jänne, MD, PhD is a member of the Scientific Leadership Board of the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Insititute (ALCMI) and the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation Medical Advisory Board

December 23, 2009 BOSTON-The ability to make, test, and map the atomic structure of new
anti-cancer agents has enabled a team of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists to discover a compound capable of halting a common type of drug-resistant lung cancer. Read More

PLEASE VIEW THE ALCMI VIDEO. Thank you all for joining us at our fourth and SIMPLY THE BEST EVER DINNER GALA on Saturday, November 21, 2009. Two-time EMMY award winner and two-time Lung Cancer survivor Kathryn Joosten, star of Desperate Housewives and previously West Wing, opened the evening with many laughs by roasting, surprising and honoring emcee Cheryl Jennings, ABC7, with the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Award for Public Service for her courage in taking the cause of Lung Cancer under her wings and generating unprecedented and resounding awareness for BJALCF and all patients and families. “Let me get this straight,” said Kathryn, while stealing Cheryl’s mic, “You’ve got five EMMY’s and I’ve only got two…” Click here to view Cheryl’s series on Zheng Cao which aired the previous evening on ABC news.

The Fairmont Grand Ballroom was filled with guests from all over the world including BJALCF’s new Nebraska affiliate and mastermind creator of the viral WTF-WHERE’S THE FUNDING? for Lung Cancer campaign, Jennifer Stauss Windrum and her LC survivor mom, Leslie Lehrman. We are so happy to have this dynamic duo and their movement join our movement and find the funding. It’s coming. Please visit Jennifer’s campaign, buy WTF merchandise, and spread the word and watch the latest on Fox 42KPTM.com.      VIEW GALA PHOTOS HERE Read More

ADDARIO LUNG CANCER MEDICAL INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES DIAGNOSTIC SCREENING AND CLINICAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS WITH RESPONSE GENETICS, INC.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, July 31, 2009—The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI) today announced the execution of a letter of intent (LOI) to collaborate with Response Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGDX) on molecular diagnostic testing and banking of advanced-stage Lung Cancer tissues.

Specific molecular features of tumors, including EGFR mutations, ras mutations, ERCC1, RRM1 or TS overexpression, have been shown in multiple studies to have prognostic importance and/or be associated with Read More

Listen to Selma Schimmel of the Group Room ® Radio as she facilitated a global Lung Cancer dialogue with Bonnie J. Addario, Giorgio Scagliotti, MD, University of Turino, and Ronald B. Natale, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center—a live broadcast from the IASLC 13th World Lung Conference in San Francisco, California. The broadcast included discussions on the stigma of Lung Cancer, the alarming increase in Lung Cancer with people who never smoked, unique mutations that may be responsible, molecular and bio-targeted drugs; facing the problem of Lung Cancer with past limited funding for research, and overcoming historical limitations with important and evolving initiatives including late-stage tissue banking and Community Hospital tissue collection through the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Insitute (ALCMI). Read More

Thank you to all who participated in our first annual walk/run. “Magical” is a good word to describe the event and all of YOU! We are OVERWHELMED by your dedication, generosity, sticktoitiveness and love. At the moment, we have raised over $165,000. More important, as Bonnie expressed, “We need each and every one of you to eradicate Lung Cancer.” Tune back in for more details and pictures. In the meantime, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts and lungs.  See Cheryl Jennings‘ Report on Zheng Cao, survivor and BJALCF Board Member.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE…it’s not over til the most wonderful Opera Singer in the world, Zheng Cao, sings again and again!!! This site will remain open through August. Read More

Thank you for helping us knock Lung Cancer out of the park. Click here to see feature in Diablo Magazine. Over 600 people joined a sell-out crowd at the Oakland Coliseum for the first annual Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Awareness Day “Battle of the Bay–Oakland A’s vs. the San Francisco Giants.”  This year’s first place winner of the “Dear Mr. President” Essay Contest (read winning essay below), 5th-grader Emma Olsen, threw the first pitch at the ballgame with Bonnie J. Addario. A book of all the essays will be sent to President Barack Obama to help him solve the Lung Cancer Epidemic. Congratulations to 2nd place winner, James Saitz, and third-place tie-winners: Jake Guerrero and Daria (Dasha) Myankonkova.

FIRST PLACE WINNER: EMMA KUULEILANI OLSEN: Dear President Obama, YES WE CAN create Lung Cancer awareness across America! YES WE CAN have more Lung Cancer survivors! YES WE CAN declare Lung Cancer a national health priority! Read More

The Cathedral High School Fighting Irish
We, at the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (BJALCF), understand more than anybody, that people follow leaders, and we thank the students and staff of Cathedral High School for leading the way, raising over $1900 dollars for Lung Cancer Research and like the Fighting Irish we know and love…Notre Dame may have taken the “name” but it started here first in this high school and the tradition lives on with Mrs. Fitzgerald’s Warriors.

To all of Mrs. Fitzgerald’s Warriors…each and every one of you…all students, faculty and staff of Cathedral High School…and to Mrs. Fitzgerald herself…BJALCF thanks you from the bottom of our hearts and lungs for standing up and fighting Lung Cancer with us, in a way the rest of the world should adopt. Read More

Thank you to all who have written and are writing to Oprah at this link: Write to Oprah.

For anyone new to this BJALCF endeavor, please write to Oprah asking her to make Lung Cancer Matter and to feature Lung Cancer on her show, in her magazine, and around the world as the headline it needs to be. Please continue to ask Oprah if she has read Bonnie’s letter. (see below). We sent Oprah a 6-foot scroll/letter asking her to help ALL OF US raise awareness for Lung Cancer in an effort to increase funding and the abysmal 15.5% survival rate.

We know that if anyone can help us raise awareness for Lung Cancer, right now, it is Oprah. Although this “Oprah season” is over…we hope that all of your emails and Bonnie’s letter will get Lung Cancer on the schedule for next season. We all know, Lung Cancer is not seasonal and continues to hurt all of us every single day. Read More

The K&L/BJALCF Charity Tasting on Sunday, June 28th, exceeded all expectations… raising many glasses and over $18,000 for Lung Cancer Research. BJALCF is so grateful to all attendees, K&L staff, and the California wineries for making Lung Cancer Matter in such a big, full-bodied way!  Our heart and “lungfelt” thanks go out to Bonny Doon, Buoncristiani, Cain, Caymus, Chateau Montelena, Cliff Lede, Copain, Duckhorn, Flora Springs, Frog’s Leap, Ladera, Lancaster/Roth, Lewis,  Robert Mondavi, Opus One, Ridge, Paradigm, Schramsberg, Silver Oak,  Stony Hill, Tor, Twomey, Vineyard 29, Woodenhead, Zepaltas, and more. Thank you for helping us increase the survival rate of Lung Cancer and extend lives with your generosity. We give you all 100 points!