The American Century Classic took place this weekend at the Edgewood Country Club in beautiful Lake Tahoe. Over 80 celebrities battled it out to win bragging rights and a hefty $600,000 purse. LIVESTRONG was proud to be the signature charity of the event raising awareness of the foundation and our mission to inspire and empower people affected by cancer. We were able to interview a few of the celebrities and volunteers about their cancer connections. Here’s what they had to say.

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When asked why he came out of retirement, Lance named a single reason: to make the fight against cancer a global priority. Lance has used the public stage of the Tour de France to increase international awareness about the cancer fight. Now it’s your turn!

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Clinical trials have, in many cases, changed the world of cancer from that of managing uniformly deadly diseases to striving for chronic care or even cure. Carefully observing patients to understand which treatments work best has led to cure in the vast majority of patients with early stage cancers, or with advanced and metastatic cancers like testicular cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). To know best how and when to use a new treatment, patients who receive it must be carefully monitored for side effects and for tumor response, and that is the fundamental idea behind a clinical…

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Competing in this year’s Race Across America was an experience that, for me, involved just about every conceivable human emotion and condition: Joy and sadness; comfort and pain; periods of strength and endurance, punctuated by moments of abject exhaustion when I could not imagine turning the pedals one more time.

Race Across America (RAAM) is a 3,000 mile bicycle race from California to Maryland. The entire time I was on the bike, I thought of my mother, Jean, who lost her battle with stage four lung cancer last autumn after four brave years of living strong with the disease.…

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American Century has supported LIVESTRONG for the past five years with the American Century Championship. This year they are adding a new layer of fun to the mix. Go online now and play the American Century Championship Challenge on www.nbcsports.com/tahoe. Play the same course that the celebs will play this weekend at Edgewood. You can win prizes including free tickets to the tourney. Tune in to NBC this weekend to see your favorite celebrities battle it out on the golf course and show your support for LIVESTRONG.

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