Please consider supporting me as I raise funds for women’s reproductive cancer treatment and research. On May 5th, I will be participating in the Discovery to Cure walk which will be held at High Plains Field , 525 Orange Center Rd. Orange CT. for details see: https://wizathon.com/discovery-to-cure/index.php This walk supports an internationally recognized program of the Yale School of
show full storyMedicine dedicated to advancing new methods of prevention, early detection and treatment of women’s reproductive cancers in order to lead to a cure. Overall funding for cancer research has declined and women’s reproductive cancers research are poorly funded despite high lethality (see below). Thus, institutions now fund raise to support projects such as those described here: https://medicine.yale.edu/obgyn/discovery/research/ I hope you will consider making a donation. You can find my page for this year's event at https://wizathon.com/discovery-to-cure/?p=display&action=participant_Page&id=96865 References: Updated funding to lethality measures for National Cancer Institute funding allocation (2007-2017) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0090825821012622 Disparities in the allocation of research funding to gynecologic cancers by Funding to Lethality scores https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30404721/ “In U.S. dollars per 100 incident cases, prostate cancer received an average of $1,821,000 per person-years of life lost, while ovarian cancer received $97,000, cervical cancer $87,000, and uterine cancer $57,000. “