美国发起筹款计划，以帮助癌症PATIents Become Long-term Survivors

FORT WORTH, Texas, August 23, 2021 /3BL Media/ — In the fifth year of its collaboration with Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C), American Airlines is launching a monthlong fundraising initiative to support SU2C’s effort to make every cancer patient a long-term survivor. When American Airlines AAdvantage® members in the United States donate $25 or more onstanduptcancer.org/aa，他们将每美元捐赠25英里。

美国的最新举措将支持SU2C及其使命，以加快开创性转化研究的速度，这些研究可以快速为患者提供新的疗法并挽救生命。迄今为止，美国及其客户为SU2C筹集了超过1000万美元，以支持十多种癌症的创新疗法，治疗和研究。

Over the last five years, American and its team members have committed to Standing Up for those who are impacted by cancer through fundraising initiatives and events, as well as developing a special SU2C livery featuring 22,627 names of cancer survivors, patients and those we have lost to cancer.

“我们知道，我们的客户和团队成员热衷于支持癌症，因为其中许多人受到癌症的影响，”全球参与高级副总裁Ron Defeo说。 “We receive a lot of feedback and hear their stories of survival and perseverance. This fundraising initiative is one effort to ensure we live up to our purpose of caring for people on life’s journey.”

Flight Attendant Cody Summers is a breast cancer survivor and one of many team members who has shared her cancer story. Now three years cancer-free, Summers is living proof that advances in cancer research and treatment can help save lives.

“Despite my breast cancer diagnosis, I chose to fight. I had a strong support system who stood by me every step of the way,” Summers said. “At the end of the day, my cancer journey was just one chapter in my story, and the funds we’re raising are so important because it will ultimately help people just like me.”

Check out more of Cody’s story below and visitstanduptcancer.org/aato donate.

This Saturday, Summers will join SU2C and the entertainment community for its seventh biennial roadblock televised fundraising special at 7 p.m. CT. The special broadcast event will air simultaneously on more than 60 participating media platforms across the United States and Canada, including all four major broadcast networks in the U.S.

About American Airlines Group

American’s purpose is to care for people on life’s journey. Shares of American Airlines Group Inc. trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AAL and the company’s stock is included in the S&P 500. Learn more about what’s happening at American by visitingnews.aa.comand connect with American on Twitter@AmericanAir并在Facebook.com/AmericanAirlines。

关于站起来癌症

Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C) raises funds to accelerate the pace of research to get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now. SU2C, a division of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was established in 2008 by media and entertainment leaders who utilize these communities’ resources to engage the public in supporting a new, collaborative model of cancer research, to increase awareness about cancer prevention, and to highlight progress being made in the fight against the disease. As of January 2021, more than 1,950 scientists representing more than 210 institutions are involved in SU2C-funded research projects.

在我们的科学咨询委员会的指导下，由诺贝尔奖获得者菲利普·A·夏普（Phillip A.。美国癌症研究协会（AACR）是SU2C的科学合作伙伴。

SU2C创始人和顾问委员会（FAC）的现任成员包括Katie Couric，Sherry Lansing，Kathleen Lobb，Lisa Paulsen，Rusty Robertson，Sue Schwartz，Pamela Oas Williams和Ellen Ziffren。已故的劳拉·齐斯金（Laura Ziskin）和已故的诺琳·弗雷泽（Noreen Fraser）也是联合创始人。R.N. Sung Poblete博士担任SU2C首席执行官，Russell Chew担任SU2C的总裁。

For more information, visitstanduptcancer.org|facebook.com/SU2C|Instagram：@su2c|Twitter:@su2c。