If you have ever needed an excuse to grow a mustache -- especially the kind worn by Jack Sparrow impersonators across the globe -- this is your chance. It may not be the Year Of The 'Stache™ anymore, but that doesn't mean you have to lay your upper lip follicles to rest. This time, you get to grow that mustache for cancer--err, against cancer! Here are the ways:

• 1. Mustaches vs. Cancer started October 5 and lasts for 56 days. Proceeds go to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
  
• 2. Movember goes throughout November, with money raised benefiting prostate and testicular cancer foundations.

And while I can't grow a mustache (believe me, I've tried!), I still was able to help the cause by giving baby-faced Asylum Editor Brian Childs money toward his fledgling facial hair.

So commit to growing that 'stache, or to support someone else's, and help fight cancer!

• link:// Mustaches vs. Cancer
• link:// Calling All Mustache Growers! It's Time to Fight Cancer!
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