A Survivor at Every Stadium: San Francisco 49ers

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Santa Clara, CA. Stanford Cancer Institute lung cancer survivor Molly Golbon and her husband Arash will joined Former 49er Chris Draft at Levi Stadium on Sunday. The Golbons will watch the San Francisco 49ers take on their NFL West rival, St. Louis Rams.

Molly Golbon:

Molly Golbon doesn’t take much for granted these days.
The 39-year old married working mom of two knows life can take unexpected turns. For her, it came with a pain in her throat, tiredness, and a cough that wouldn’t go away.
“I went in for an MRI, and that’s when they found there was something on the MRI,” Golbon recalled. That something turned out to be lung cancer. “I think when they told me it was lung cancer, I thought it can’t be. It can’t be. It’s probably bronchitis or pneumonia, it’s not that.”
Unfortunately, it was.
Until her diagnosis, Golbon, like many people, thought only smokers got lung cancer.
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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. In 2012, Team Draft marked the occasion by launching our inaugural Survivor at Every Stadium initiative on CNN during a nationally-televised prime time special focusing on lung cancer and our National Campaign to Change the Face of Lung Cancer.

Leveraging our connections with the NFL, its teams and players and our relationships with many of the top cancer centers in the country, we arranged to have lung cancer survivors attend games at NFL stadiums across the country during the last two months of the 2012-2013 season. By the time the initiative concluded at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, more than 30 lung cancer survivors representing 30 cancer centers and nearly every NFL team had participated. Given the overwhelming success of our Survivor at Every Stadium initiative, we have expanded it beyond the NFL to the NBA, the NHL and MLS—and this year, London, UK! As part of our National Campaign, this celebration of survivorship raises lung cancer awareness, gives hope to those battling the disease, and shines a light on the important work being done at cancer research and treatment centers around the country.

Team Draft’s goals are to create a unique experience for participating survivors and to raise awareness on a local, national, and international level by using each game and each survivor’s story to weave a broader narrative about the state of cancer and the hope that now exists for those battling the disease.

Special thanks to the San Francisco 49ers, the Stanford Cancer Institute, Samantha Mixon and our Team Draft’s supporters for helping make this experience possible.

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