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All three network anchors participated in Stand Up To Cancer, a primetime TV fundraiser last fall. NBC's Brian Williams and CBS' Katie Couric both announced that the $73m raised has now been distributed to five research teams. CBS' in-house physician Jon LaPook backed up the grant by crunching the numbers from the National Cancer Institute. Using the statistic of basic research dollars spent per death from a tumor of each organ, the cervix and the breast are best funded; the stomach, the lung and the esophagus the worst. Advocacy groups for cancers that are specific to women are more aggressive at raising awareness, Dr LaPook reported. Anchor Couric added that for the most lethal cancers there are "not that many survivors--they are not a built-in advocacy group."
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