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January 18, 2008 - Austin, TX
CRI President Dr. Carmona and Lance Armstrong Announce Partnership

Lance Armstrong, founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), and Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, president of Canyon Ranch Institute and 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), were joined by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Austin, Texas, to announce the new partnership between Canyon Ranch Institute and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The partnership will focus on cancer prevention and survivorship.

Lance Armstrong, chairman and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (center) and Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H, FACS, president of Canyon Ranch Institute and 17th U.S. Surgeon General (2002-2006) (right), with the support of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left), announce a partnership focused on cancer prevention and survivorship and on making cancer a national priority. (Austin, TX, January 18, 2008, © 2008 Elizabeth Kreutz)
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On January 18, Canyon Ranch Institute and the LAF released Lance's request to Dr. Carmona to create a national strategy to combat cancer, and Dr. Carmona's response. Dr. Carmona and previous U.S. Surgeons General will collaborate with the cancer prevention and survivorship community to develop a National Call to Action on Cancer Prevention and Survivorship.



"The need and the urgency to make cancer prevention and survivorship a national priority should be clear to all of us, but the level of action and progress is not nearly what it should be."


-- Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS
President, Canyon Ranch Institute

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