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Wed, Mar 18, 2009

Corporate Angel Network Achieves New Milestone

Flies 31,000th & 31,001st Patient Flights

Winston Churchill, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, and Susan Polan, another cancer patient, recently flew home to Florida from treatment at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, TX on Corporate Angel Network’s 31,000th and 31,001st patient flights. 

Polan, who had just returned from a course of chemotherapy, observed “Chemo was exhausting: I was in no condition to go through the ordeal of flying commercially, which can be very painful after treatment. I am so grateful to Corporate Angel Network for this flight.”

Churchill was at one time a volunteer pilot in the St. John’s Ambulance Air Wing. Their mission was to provide a volunteer air service for the rapid transport of organs. He remembers "flying donor organs throughout Northern Europe at all hours in order to save lives."

Churchill continued, "It is wonderful that today so many large corporations should be so public spirited and caring towards cancer sufferers. It gave me great pleasure to help kidney patients in the past and, in the same way, Corporate Angel Network is an excellent way to help cancer patients who understandably are stressed, by making their lives a whole lot easier."

Corporate Angel Network is a public charity that arranges free flights for cancer patients to treatment using empty seats on business aircraft. Since its founding 27 years ago, CAN has grown to include over 500 participating corporations, five paid staff, and a team of 50 part-time volunteers who work with patients, physicians, corporate flight departments, and leading treatment centers to coordinate medical travel needs of cancer patients with the scheduled flight activity of participating corporations.

CAN currently provides nearly 3,000 patient flights annually.

FMI: www.corpangelnetwork.org

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