Family and Friends,

**November 2022** was a life-changing month for me. In less than 30 days, I was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer, learned the specific mutation of my cancer (ALK+), and began my targeted therapy (a daily pill) that I am still taking.

**This November**, as part of **Lung Cancer Awareness Month,** Lisa and I are launching our second annual, month-long fundraising effort (**#SweatForBreath**) to raise both money for ALK+ research and promote awareness about this disease and my story to change the stigma often associated with lung cancer.

All of the proceeds from the #SweatForBreath campaign will go towards the research of **Dr. Vincent Lam** (my oncologist) at The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore, MD (my hometown), who specializes in ALK+ specifically. Through his research, Dr. Lam is particularly focused on investigating why currently available immunotherapies don’t work well for ALK+ lung cancer and developing novel immunotherapies that can better target ALK (e.g. vaccines). He currently runs the world’s first ALK+ peptide vaccine clinical trial that is now underway.

More Research = More Life

Thank you all in advance for your support,
David & Lisa

**What You Can Do!**

1. **Donate!** Hit that little green button up to the right!  
2. **Sweat!** Walk, run, bike, row, hike, climb — doesn’t matter.  Push yourself to do something hard so you know that you can do something hard and come out better on the other side!
3. **Share!**  Last year, what started as an email to friends and family quickly grew into a community impelled to make a difference.  Many donors found out about the campaign from a friend or virtually through the social media posts of those willing to  **#SweatForBreath** . 

We encourage you to:

- **Share** the donation link with friends and family
- **Send** a picture to [david@sweatforbreath.org](mailto:david@sweatforbreath.org)
- **Post** a picture of you doing your activity on social media (use the hashtag  **#SweatForBreath** )
- **Challenge** a friend to a #SweatForBreath post!

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**Suggested Social Media Language**

*Today, I **#SweatForBreath** for my friend @DavidCornbrooks, who was diagnosed with ALK+ **#lungcancer** at the age of 38.  He’s a former Division 1 athlete and has never smoked a cigarette in his life!*

*He currently benefits from a drug approved as a first-line treatment only a few years ago. There is research for new treatments underway that have the potential to add years to the lives of **#ALKpositive** patients like him.*

*More research = more life.*

*He and his wife, @LisaCornbrooks started @SweatForBreathFoundation to help the next generation of ALK+ lung cancer patients.*

*Consider donating at www.SweatForBreath.org!*

***#LungCancerAwarenessMonth #LCAM #LCAM24***

***Note**: Tag @DavidCornbrooks, @LisaCornbrooks, @SweatForBreathFoundation*

#SweatForBreath 2024

Extending and improving the lives of people with ALK+ lung cancer by raising funds for research and patient support programs.

**Our Vision**

We envision a world where ALK+ lung cancer is a chronic or even curable condition and the next person diagnosed with lung cancer does not have to live under the current stigma.

**Our Start**

#SweatForBreath started as a grassroots fundraising campaign during Lung Cancer Awareness Month in 2023. After being diagnosed with Stage IV ALK+ lung cancer in November 2022, David Cornbrooks became keenly aware that he was benefiting from the selfless fundraising and awareness efforts of the patients before him.

[Listen to David's story here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWcS-yN7Qxw)

The #SweatForBreath campaign in 2023 became David, and his wife, Lisa’s, way to help the next generation ALK+ lung cancer patients.

#SweatForBreath accelerated beyond more than just a typical fundraiser.  The initiative quickly evolved into a community of patients, caregivers, family, and friends seeking to make David and Lisa's vision a reality and the road to that vision more tolerable. People donated, sweat at the in-person cycle event, posted on social media, and helped fundraise through organizing group walks, selling art, "gifting" donations on behalf of clients, and much more.

Their success in 2023 compelled David and Lisa to officially transition the #SweatForBreath campaign into the Sweat For Breath Foundation, operating through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund, a Maryland charitable trust recognized by IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178).

**Our Impact**

In 2023, over **750 donors** gave nearly **$200,000** to the #SweatForBreath grassroots campaign. 100% of the proceeds went directly to The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Center in Baltimore, MD to support Dr. Vincent Lam’s ALK+ lung cancer research. This support provided the critical funding needed to launch Dr. Lam’s clinic trial, which will evaluate the safety of a cancer peptide vaccine to prevent or delay acquired resistance in advanced ALK+ lung cancer patients currently on ALK targeted therapy. Dr. Lam’s vaccine is the **first ALK+ vaccine in the world** to be tested in a clinical trial. Dr. Lam administered the vaccine to the first patient **in clinic on May 13, 2024**!

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*The Sweat for Breath Foundation is a project of Players Philanthropy Fund, Inc. a Texas nonprofit corporation recognized by IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178,ppf.org/pp). Contributions to The Sweat for Breath Foundation qualify as tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.*

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I met David through our writing group: I also have ALK+ lung cancer. Thanks to scientific breakthroughs, I've hiked, kayaked, perfected (ha) my yoga poses and played tennis for seven years after my ALK diagnosis. I've seen my kids mature  into adults and my daughter marry. However, I am 18 months into the last approved targeted therapy for ALK. So I am hoping Dr. Lam and other researchers keep pushing the science forward so I can keep going. More than that, I want David and others diagnosed young to have the gift I have had of seeing their families grow up.

Keep up the incredible work Cornbrooks fam!

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