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Comic Sean Patton doesn't want anyone to get sick, but he does want to help raise awareness about cancer. He is one of five stand-up comics who is participated in the second annual "Comedy For Cancer" event.

"'Comedy for Cancer,' I don't like that name. It makes it seem like I want it to happen. Like, 'I'm for it, man!'" jokes Patton.

The benefit was thought up by cancer survivor Garland Harwood.

"I wanted to do something that was really affordable it was exciting and appealing to young people and it wasn't a place where someone was lighting a candle or doing something really heavy like that, but something really light-hearted," says Harwood.

In 2005, Harwood was diagnosed with a sarcoma, a kind of cancer, in his neck. While receiving treatment at St. Vincent's Hospital, he had to take taxis back and forth from his home in Brooklyn and the cost added up.

"Back and forth to St. Vincent's every day for seven months, my expenses got outrageous," says Harwood.

He turned to the American Cancer Society for assistance and their transportation stipend program reimbursed him for his travel costs.

"People think of cancer in terms of the cost of treatment, but they don't always think about the cost of getting to and from treatment and that can be pretty substantial," says Ashley Engelman of the American Cancer Society.

The money raised at Comedy For Cancer goes to the American Cancer Society's Brooklyn office.

"Local services include rides to treatment, local screenings in low-income neighborhoods and free mammograms for people who are uninsured," says Harwood.

Last year, Comedy For Cancer raised $4,000 for American Cancer Society in Brooklyn, and Hardwood says this year's total will match that or more.

"I really want people tonight to learn something about the American Cancer Society and the crucial services that they provide to people all over Brooklyn," says Harwood.

Volunteer comic Nick Ross also had cancer.

"It's kind of a funny story about how I stopped being a vegetarian... I, I got cancer," jokes Ross.

Yet he insists he does not make light of the cause.

"It's not like in anyway I make fun of the disease. If anything, I am humbled by it in my life," says Ross.

So, for bringing a little laughter to a good cause, Garland Harwood is the latest New Yorker of the Week.