Hope for a Cure Foundation Board of Directors

From left to right: Olga Fisher, Maryjo
Highland, Dee Jerge,
Marianne Nakamura, and Eva Borgstrom
Not Pictured: Pam Miller-Xitco
“Alone we can do so little; together we can
do so much”
– Helen
Keller |
A total of 1,529,560 new cancer cases and 569,490 deaths from cancer were projected to occur in the United States in 2010. Overall cancer incidence rates decreased in the most recent time period in both men (1.3% per year from 2000 to 2006) and women (0.5% per year from 1998 to 2006), largely due to decreases in the 3 major cancer sites in men (lung, prostate, and colon and rectum [colorectum]) and 2 major cancer sites in women (breast and colorectum).
The Hope
for a Cure Foundation has been set up to raise funds
for cancer research in San Diego. Two of our board members are breast
cancer survivors and have traveled the road from diagnosis through treatment. They know personally how important it is to continue funding
the research for a cure.
Well-renowned local nonprofit cancer research centers such as Sidney Kimmel
Cancer Center (a Sharp Affiliate), Scripps, The Burnham Institute, and
UCSD have high profile research projects currently underway. The costs
to facilitate
these research projects are overwhelming and are often not covered by
grants and individual donations. Local and national organizations support
these
institutes but overhead expenses consume much of the money brought in
by fundraising and solicitation efforts.
We would like to make a difference. We are all volunteering
our time and expertise to keep our overhead at an absolute minimum; almost 100% of your donation goes towards the purchase of the equipment.
The
donations go directly towards equipment and research, not
to high overhead costs. The funds we raise stay in San Diego
because we
have so MANY advanced research programs in place already. A breakthrough
here in San Diego will benefit us all, no matter where we live.
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