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Grey's Anatomy's Sara Ramirez Stands Up and Sings for Liver Cancer 2010/10/2 15:49:29

Callie Torres won't be belting a tune anytime anon on Grey's Anatomy — unless "one day we may accept a agreeable episode," says Sara Ramirez — but association in New York can bolt the extra singing reside Monday from the Broadway Takes the Runway benefit.

Ramirez will accomplish on account of The Al D. Rodriguez Foundation, an alignment she launched to accession acquaintance for hepatitis and alarmist cancer. It is called afterwards a backward acquaintance of the Grey's star.

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"A brace of years ago, my best acquaintance Al D. Rodriguez was diagnosed with Stage 4 alarmist blight out of the blue," Ramirez tells "Unfortunately, the alarmist is an agency that you can't absolutely apperceive something is actual amiss until it's too late. That's what's alarming about his story."

Rodriguez apprenticed hepatitis in top academy through food, and it went basic until he was 45 years old. By then, it angry into alarmist cancer. "When he got diagnosed, we were all absolutely abashed and in denial," she says.

Ramirez gets afraid up abandoning that they anticipation he had three months, but "he concluded up alone active six weeks." The day afterwards Rodriguez passed, Ramirez and his accompany aggregate to apple-pie out his accommodation and absitively to alpha a foundation. "When you're just entering the affliction mode, I assumption your aboriginal actuation is to break busy."

"More than anything, one of our goals is to accommodate humans with chargeless screening and vaccinations for hepatitis," she says. "That can absolutely stop the affair appropriate there in its tracks."

The organization's additional benefit, which takes abode at Touch in New York City on Monday night, will be hosted by Carson Kressley (Queer Eye), and will affection performances by Ramirez, who won a Tony for Spamalot in 2005, and adolescent Tony champ and Private Practice brilliant Audra McDonald. Tickets to the accident can be purchased online here.

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