Endowed Fund for The Breast Cancer Site Researcher at Mayo Clinic From $25.00
Every moment counts in the fight against breast cancer and in the search for a cure. And now, The Breast Cancer Site has found one more way to help. Together with the Mayo Clinic, we've created The Breast Cancer Site Endowed Fund for Breast Cancer Research.
Help us fund this endowment! Contributions to the fund are matched by the Mayo Clinic up to $250,000, so your contribution is doubled at no extra cost to you.
The Mayo Clinic operates 3 research hospitals and over 50 clinics, and is one of the world's preeminent medical research facilities. Mayo Clinic collaborated with Gamma Medica and GE Healthcare to develop a diagnostic device that is sensitive enough to detect breast tumors as tiny as one-fifth of an inch in diameter. The new technique obtains images that, unlike mammography images, are not affected by dense breast tissue.
It's innovative and creative thinking like this that leads to important breakthroughs in the field of breast cancer research, where literally every minute counts toward a cure.
Interest earned from the fund will be used to pay the salary of a breast cancer researcher at the Mayo Clinic beginning in January 2008. The researcher will not test on animals. Once completely funded, The Breast Cancer Site Endowed Fund for Breast Cancer Research at the Mayo Clinic will fund breast cancer research in perpetuity.
thebreastcancersite.com 2008 Research Scholar
Matthew P. Goetz, M.D., is a breast cancer oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Goetz's principal research interest is in the pharmacogenetics of cancer therapy. He is the recipient of thebreastcancersite.com 2008 Research Scholar Award, in addition to countless other awards and honors during his training and career. Dr. Goetz's principal research interest of tamoxifen chemical modifications and work with the enzyme cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) has led to a recent FDA recommendation to change the label of tamoxifen to incorporate the importance of genetic and drug-induced variation in CYP2D6. He has served as co-investigator and principal investigator for research funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of General Medicine Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. In addition, Dr. Goetz holds two U.S. patents for his work in cancer research.
Support shown from the benefactors to thebreastcancersite.com is crucial. Through these gifts, tremendous strides are being made in breast cancer research at Mayo Clinic.
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