The Cancer Research Foundation is a tax-exempt, Public Charity based in the United States created exclusively to raise funds to further and support cancer research. The foundation is designed to minimize operating expenses and to donate a hundred percent of all net proceeds to cancer research.
The Cancer Research Foundation supports the research efforts of a select group of top institutes on the cutting edge of cancer research. consciously supporting diverse and innovative centers in the expectation that each institute will find a different piece to the puzzle and that, together, will find a cure or cures to more than 200 types of cancer.
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“We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories (1986)
“After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.”
—Helene Deutsch (1884–1982)
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—John Locke (1632–1704)