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March 24, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="32187" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Cancer Research is Critical To Making Cures Possible. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Find someone diagnosed with cancer, and they will have likely been treated with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or by having the tumor surgically removed. Treatment is hardly enjoyable, but it is usually quite...

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Blog, Press Release
December 23, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 23, 2019 CONTACT: National Foundation for Cancer Research Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Global Program Development E-mail: bgillenwater@nfcr.org / Phone: 301-961-9161 ROCKVILLE, MD – A translational research project supported by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) has been awarded $700,000 from Virginia Catalyst to advance...

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November 21, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] The holiday season has many people thinking about giving gifts and embracing the spirit of generosity. Most of the beautiful generosity is close to home, spoiling loved ones with presents and treats. Giving Tuesday was established in 2012 as a way to harness the...

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November 5, 2019

[caption id="attachment_29743" align="alignnone" width="1050"] If it looks as though you may lose out on the annual income tax charitable deduction, here are three options which may still offer you a tax benefit.[/caption] The 2018 tax changes introduced some confusion with respect to the tax advantages of...

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September 23, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="28563" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Often, when I speak of leaving a legacy to NFCR, many donors sigh and talk about the difficulty of sitting with an attorney and revising their will or setting up a trust. Not to mention the family dynamics and costs...

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Blog, From the CEO
September 17, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="28419" img_size="full" style="vc_box_border" border_color="sky" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]The National Foundation for Cancer Research funds “high-risk, high-reward” research with a singular focus on one absolute and immutable goal: research to cure cancer – cures for all types of cancer. Since 1973 with grass roots support of Americans...

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May 17, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="26126" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Here is the hard truth: Research is expensive. Salaries, equipment, upgrades, experiments, clinical trials and prototyping voraciously eat up budgets, even those in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. And this is before success (or failure) is declared. Unfortunately,...

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Blog, News
March 12, 2018

The Safeway Foundation provided the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) a $50,000 grant to support innovative oncology research. The donation has been designated to NFCR Fellow Paul B. Fisher, M.Ph., Ph.D., at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. The funds from The Safeway...