Celebrities including Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson and Salma Hayek will participate in a Telethon on September 5 called "Stand Up To Cancer," an initiative for cancer research.
The research - to be managed by the American Association for Cancer Research - is aimed at developing new treatments for the terminal sickness. The AACR predicts that 1,437,180 people in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer and six million people around the world will die from cancer this year.
"Stand Up To Cancer is an unprecedented collaboration uniting the major television networks, entertainment industry executives and celebrities, and prominent leaders in cancer research and patient advocacy in a major new initiative to move groundbreaking cancer research out of the lab and into the clinic," wrote the AACR in a statement on its website.
Cyclist and cancer survivor, Lance Amstrong will join along with Charlize Theron, America Ferrera and Jennifer Aniston among others, the Associated Press reported.
The event will air on ABC, CBS and NBC. It will also include musical presentations, as well as actors, athletes and journalists.
"This is an opportunity to serve the greater good, to put aside our competitive differences," Katie Couric, the Anchor of CBS Evening News said on the same network's Early Show program.
