ASCO Cancer Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Award $2.7 Million to Improve Cancer Care
ASCO Cancer Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Award $2.7 Million to Improve Cancer Care
The ASCO Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced $2.7 million in grants to improve the quality of breast cancer care for young women and patients in rural areas.
Grants of $1.35 million each were awarded to the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Shaw Regional Cancer Center in Edwards, Colorado. Dana-Farber will work to address young women's concerns about fertility following breast cancer treatment by providing additional care, support, and education for patients as well as educational and clinical tools for providers in community care settings. With its grant, the Shaw Regional Cancer Center will develop a Web-based program designed to enable rural radiation oncology practices to consult with experts on radiation treatment plans through direct live visual illustration.
The grants are the largest ever made by the ASCO Cancer Foundation and the first from its Improving Cancer Care grants program, a collaboration with the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Komen. The program supports efforts to improve the quality of cancer care with general applicability to breast cancer, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary research involving clinicians, nurses, information technologists, statisticians, and others.
"As we search for cures and treatments for breast cancer, we're also focused on the issues that women with the disease face today and in the delivery of the best care to women and men wherever they may live," said Elizabeth Thompson, Komen's senior vice president of medical and scientific affairs. "These research programs seek the innovative approaches we need to meet the real needs of real people with breast cancer across the U.S., with implications worldwide."
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