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While funding grants are Maine Cancer Foundation’s number one priority, we also seek to address cancer issues unique to Maine by collaboration and targeted funding. Maine Cancer Foundation sees the complex issues, from social, demographic or economic, that impact prevention to early detection and treatment. Because we are independent and fundamentally grass roots, we can easily move to make a difference.

For instance, Maine’s colon cancer rate is higher than the national average.  MCF supports programs that increase awareness and encourage screening; with a large immigrant population in the state, MCF helped an effort to understand cultural differences in end-of-life care; in hopes that seeing a pink license plate may remind women to have their annual mammogram, we were instrumental in having a breast cancer license plate created. To address the question of whether or not cancers run in families, we supported southern Maine’s first cancer geneticist who educated and counseled concerned families. Because knowing the outcomes of treatment is vital to meeting best practice guidelines, MCF helped fund the initial National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s community-based program. To aid researchers that need donated tumor, as well as blood samples to further their work, MCF helped improve Mac’s Blood and Tumor Bank.

Over $260,000 was allocated to Programs in the past ten years.