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CEO Cancer Gold Standard Update: Summer 2009
CEO Cancer Gold Standard Update: Summer 2009 Newsletter

'Wellness at Wistar' Program Promotes Healthy Lifestyles, Cancer Prevention
The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research with expertise in cancer research and vaccine development, was accredited in August 2008, with the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ from the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, in recognition of its efforts to improve the health of employees and their families and reduce their risks of cancer.

Homage to Joel Siegel
A tribute to Joel Siegel

Going for Gold
At $1 an apple, there weren't many takers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's cafeterias.

Wellness Conquers Cancer
One by one, large Triangle employers are starting to urge their employees to eat more broccoli, start exercising and stop smoking.

Companies Heed Bush's Call to Battle
"When the former president calls to ask you something, you know that you're going to say yes," Ingram says with a laugh."

The CEO's Role in Fighting Cancer
Few actions in the tenure of a CEO are more personally rewarding than saving and improving human lives.....

Tobacco Free Company a Big Hit
Smoke breaks are now prohibited at one pharmaceutical research company at Research Triangle Park.

Can CEO's Cure Cancer
Big Pharma execs may not know more about the disease than the rest of us, but a group of them are using their power to fight it.

Step Up to the CEO Cancer Gold Standard
...this breeds a corporate culture of wellness. It's not simply another benefit that's going to be added to your package of benefits."

CEOs Resolve to Combat Cancer
...former president George H.W. Bush challenged Robert A. Ingram, to do something "bold and venturesome" about cancer.

GOLD STANDARD FOCUS

Read Dr. Leonard Berry’s powerful remarks to the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, September 11, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.
Employers of Choice Attacking Cancer



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Did You Know?

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease.