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About them: Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), America's first cancer center founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park. RPCI is the only upstate New York facility to hold the National Cancer Center designation of "comprehensive cancer center" and to serve as a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Over its long history, Roswell Park Cancer Institute has made fundamental contributions to reducing the cancer burden and has successfully maintained an exemplary leadership role in setting the national standards for cancer care, research and education.
The campus spans 25 acres in downtown Buffalo and consists of 15 buildings with about 1.6 million square feet of space. A new hospital building, completed in 1998, houses a comprehensive diagnostic and treatment center. In addition, the Institute built a new medical research complex and renovated existing education and research space to support its future growth and expansion.
For more information about Roswell Park and cancer in general, please contact the Cancer Call Center at 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724).
South Florida Cancer Association
About them: The South Florida Cancer Association is a 501(c)3 community-based nonprofit organization with the mission of providing cancer-related information and assistamce to the underserved communities of South Florida.
LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center
About them: The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center at Dell Children's Medical Center improves the quality of life of survivors of childhood cancers by addressing medical and psychosocial issues through multidisciplinary care. The Center offers long term medical follow up care, social work services, school services, support groups, healthy eating and exercise programs. Please contact the Center for more information or to schedule an appointment.
Name of Resource: LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center
Resource address: 1301 Barbara Jordan Blvd STE 402
Resource city: Austin
Resource county: Austin
Resource state: TX
Resource zip: 78723
Resource Phone: 512-628-1910
About them: LUNGevity Foundation was founded by seven Chicago-area lung cancer
survivors in November 2000 to increase funding for lung cancer research.
Upon being diagnosed with lung cancer, these individuals learned that while tremendous progress had been made in detecting and treating many of the deadliest cancers over the last two decades, little progress had been made to save the lives of individuals diagnosed with lung cancer. This slow progress was due, in great part, to a lack of funding for lung cancer research. While funding for breast, prostate and colorectal cancer research had grown exponentially over the years, there had been no corresponding growth for lung cancer research.
Since its inception in November 2000, the Foundation has committed to co-funding more than $5 million in innovative lung cancer research projects at the foremost cancer programs in America. LUNGevity Foundation partners with the American Cancer Society Illinois Chapter, American Lung Association, American Thoracic Society, Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships, and The CHEST Foundation (the philanthropic arm of the American College of Chest Physicians) to make its research awards.
About them: For more than five-and-a-half decades, CRI has been a leading and sustaining force in immunology and cancer immunology research worldwide. Through our advancement of these two scientific fields, we are learning how to manipulate the human immune system to target and attack cancer. Our goal is to discover and develop new, immune-based approaches to the treatment, control, and prevention of cancer.
http://www.cancerresearch.org/
About them: On July 28, 2009, a 47 year old man lost his life to colon cancer. His name is Jim Chmielewski. He was a member of the Bikers For Christ and lived by the word of God. He organized and participated in many charities like Toys for Tots, Teen Challenge and Youth Prison Ministries. In his memory, a non-profit organization was created. The Jim C Colonoscopy Relief Fund will assist the poor, distressed, and underprivileged without discrimination of age, sex, race or religion the ability to obtain colonoscopy.
This is Jim's last request, for every man and women to get a colonoscopy. Don't wait until you are 50 years of age. Here are some facts:
Colo-rectal cancer—cancer of the colon or rectum—is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. In 2005, more than 53,000 people in the United States died of colo-rectal cancer (26,781 men and 26,224 women).
Colorectal cancer also is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States. In 2005, more than 141,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with colorectal cancer (72,007 men and 69,398 women), making it the third most common cancer in men and in women.
Please donate $10.00 to the Jim C Colonoscopy Relief Fund and receive a Memorial Patch designed in the memory of Jim Chmielewski.
To order:
Make check out to Jim C Relief Fund
Mail to: Spike
c/o Jim C Memorial Patch
P.O. Box 3724
Thousand Oaks, CA 91359
When placing your order, please include your:
Name, Address, Email contact, quantity
http://www.jimcrelieffund.org/
About them: Kids Kicking Cancer is a non-profit 501© 3 organization that provides weekly classes for children, both inpatient and outpatient, in the mind-body techniques found in the martial arts. Our mission is “to ease the pain of very sick children while empowering them to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally.”
We emphasize relaxation and mental imagery, and skill each student according to his or her capabilities to engage in breathing, meditation, and active karate exercises. We also instruct the parents, siblings and the medical personnel in these methods. Our instructors are invited to accompany their students and further assist them in the hospital rooms and clinics as they undergo painful procedures such as spinal taps and bone marrow aspirations. Our mantra: “Pain is a message one does not have to accept.”
About them: What exactly does CURE fund?
- Research into the development of “targeted therapies” – that focus only cancer cells and do not harm surrounding healthy cells. Targeted therapies are critical to ensuring that patients are spared the devastating and often life-threatening “late effects” caused by current conventional therapies
- Basic and clinical research
- Training of future pediatric oncologists and researchers through the fellowship program at Emory University School of Medicine
- Emergency financial assistance for families stricken by childhood cancer
- Professional development and continuing education efforts for nurses, family support team members, and others caring for children with cancer
- Innovative programs that address the critical and urgent needs of patients and their families, such as meals to inpatient families, outreach at the time of diagnosis, and bereavement support
http://www.curechildhoodcancer.org/
About them: MyHopeSpace.com is owned and operated by Foundations of Hope, Inc., a Nebraska not-for-profit corporation.
Every journey through cancer is different, everyone gets involved for different reasons and people cope in many different ways whether they be the patient, friend, family or caregiver. MyHopeSpace.com is a site that can be a way to enhance their experience no matter what role they play. It also provides a place for hope.
Everyone handles a cancer diagnosis of themselves or a loved one different - MyHopeSpace.com is designed to cross boundaries of all those impacted by the disease. Whether your male or female, have breast or lung or one of the other hundreds of types of cancer, are a patient or a caregiver or family member or member of the medical community, whether you live in the Midwest, Europe or are just one of the thousands in a hospital bed currently battling the disease - there is a place for you at MyHopeSpace.com to hopefully gain insight, hope, share you journey or just learn that you are not alone.
http://www.myhopespace.com/index.php
About them: In August 2008, I started the Jill Lamb Foundation in honor of my
friend Jill who lost her 5-year battle with breast cancer. The
organization is designed to assist families with breast cancer through
financial assistance and through the rendering of services. Additionally,
the organization conducts educational outreach on the risks of breast
cancer and the various detection methods available.
Families dealing with breast cancer, such as mine and Jill's, should not
have to worry about the little things that need to be taken care of. Simple
things like dinner or a clean house make a marked impact on their lives.
JLF is designed to relieve some of those many burdens families face.
JLF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing support to families suffering from breast cancer and provide education on the risks of breast cancer and treatment options available.
http://www.jilllambfoundation.org/index.html
Live Strong. Lance Armstrong Foundation
About them: At the Lance Armstrong Foundation, we inspire and empower people affected by cancer.
We believe that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything. Read our Manifesto.
We provide the practical information and tools people with cancer need to live life on their own terms.
We take aim at the gaps between what is known and what is done to prevent suffering and death due to cancer.
We unite people to fight cancer and pursue an agenda focused on:
- Prevention
- Access to screening and care
- Improvement of the quality of life for cancer survivors
- Investment in research
Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the LAF is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Austin, Texas.
