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

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.