LANCE ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION AND DELL CHILDREN’S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION DEDICATE LIVESTRONG™ SURVIVORSHIP CENTER FOR YOUNG CANCER SURVIVORS

Half Million Dollar Grant and Matching Gift Used to Create First Central Texas LIVESTRONG™ Survivorship Center

AUSTIN, Texas — September 12, 2007 — Lance Armstrong, chairman and founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), today joined distinguished members of the medical and philanthropic community at the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas to dedicate the LIVESTRONG™ Survivorship Center in Austin and urge Texans to vote for Proposition 15. The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center is funded through a pledge agreement between the LAF and the Aragona Family Foundation, both of which are contributing $500,000. Joe Aragona, a member of the LAF Board of Directors, and his wife Sandra support cancer and youth services through their Austin-based foundation.

"The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center is a great investment in the health and quality of life of young Central Texas cancer survivors," said Lance Armstrong. "This Center will help bring more Texans the kind of medical and emotional support they deserve as they fight cancer. This disease affects all of us, and it won’t cure itself. That is why I am asking Texans to vote for Proposition 15 and make an investment in their own lives and the lives of their loved ones in the fight against cancer."

Proposition 15, on the ballot in Texas this November, will create the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and fund the largest state-level investment in cancer prevention and research in America, devoting $3 billion to finding causes of and cures for cancer over a 10-year commitment.

Nearly 600,000 Americans die as a result of cancer every year, among them 35,000 Texans. However, the number of survivors is growing, and currently more than 10 million people are living with cancer across the U.S. As the number of people surviving cancer continues to rise and as their challenges grow in magnitude and complexity, an increasing need exists for new models of survivorship care and research.

Cancer is the most common disease-related cause of death for Texans 19 and younger. In Texas, more than 1,000 Texans 20 and younger are diagnosed with cancer every year and approximately 200 die as a result. About 270,000 childhood cancer survivors live in the U.S. today.