Friday night, all three major networks, including cbs, will spend one commercial-free hour spotlighting cancer research, raising money to find a cure.

Rready to wow the crowd... television star fran drescher makes last minute changes during a dress rehearsal for Friday night's big show. It's personal to Drescher... diagnosed with uterine cancer in June of 2000... she immediately underwent a radical hysterectomy... and 8-years later... she's celebrating another cancer-free anniversary.

Drescher is one of 72 celebrities who will hit the stage at the Kodak Theater to perform, give personal stories of cancer survival... even talk to you on donation calls.
Those celebrities include Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson and Rob Lowe.

Even more hollywood stars are on public service announcements urging others to stand up to cancer by donating money to fund cancer research.
1,500 Americans die each day of the disease.
cCBS anchor Katie Couric lost her husband Jay to colon cancer in 1998, then her sister Emily died in 2001 of pancreatic cancer.

Money raised in this massive effort is putting researchers within reach of a cure.