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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