Austin man offers $1 billion for cancer cure

From KVUE, July 27, 2008...

Mike Dewey has a plan to eliminate breast cancer: He's offering $1 billion to the person who discovers the cure.

Never mind the fact the 48-year-old Austin consultant has nothing close to that much money. Dewey, whose daughters are at increased risk for the disease because his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, says he'll come up with the cash.

"I get pretty fired up about this because I've got girls in danger," said Dewey, who says he's raised about $22 million in pledges so far and about $90,000 in actual donations through his nonprofit foundation.

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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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