Friday, March 21, 2008

Austin Man Offers $1 Billion To Anyone Who Can Cure Breast Cancer

From statesman.com March 19, 2008...

Barbara Dewey was 40 when she got breast cancer.

"The first thing I thought about was not me, but the fact that I had two daughters," she said. "You just hope by the time they're young adults, there's a cure found."

Dewey was lucky. Doctors caught the disease early, and she is now cancer-free.
Though treatments have greatly improved, seven years later, there is still no cure for breast cancer.

Now, Dewey's husband, Mike, is trying to speed up the process by starting a foundation and offering $1 billion to the first person to find a cure.

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