Flash Mob Brings Us Closer to Cancer Free

Let's hope that one you'll be watching the Super Bowl and come across a commercial like this one.

By Jorge Rivas Feb 01, 2013

Earlier this week I wrote about some questionable Super Bowl commercials scheduled to air this Sunday. Now I’m writing about what commercials I would like to see in between the big game.

On November 20, 2012, a group of cancer survivors, doctors and caregivers from Smilow Cancer Hospital, along with the Fairfield Children’s Choir and a troupe of stage performers, came together at Union Station in New Haven.

They were there to celebrate personal triumph. And to celebrate life.

(Update: 2/3/2012 2:35p–The Fairfield Citizen reports the commercial will be "broadcast before kickoff and later during the football game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens." 

We reached out to the Smilow Canter Hospital at Yale-New Haven (YNHH) and there are currently no plans to broadcast this video on TV. YNHH is a 1,541-bed teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine.


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