Help Us to Help Women with Advanced Cancer!

One in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes(1) and close to 300,000 women die of cancer every year in the US(2).  Our mothers, our daughters, and our sisters are all at risk of developing this devastating disease.  

We are a group of five women with different backgrounds (medicine, scientific research, caregiving, law) that would like to honor our friends and family who struggled with advanced cancer, which is cancer that has spread from where it began.  We are committed to growing our non-profit organization, Angelmira’s Center for Women with Advanced Cancer, and need your help.  Recently incorporated in the State of Texas, our organization envisions creating a comprehensive support system for women diagnosed with advanced cancer.

How will we use your donations(3)?

Our goal is to provide several programs for women with advanced cancer that will:

*      Help women understand their diagnoses of advanced cancer and treatments through education

*      Assist women in finding resources, such as financial assistance and appropriate medical care, including enrollment in clinical trials

*      Establish communities of solidarity so that all women with advanced cancer have the companionship they need

*      Provide a variety of activities that may enhance quality of life for women

*      Conduct research projects and investigate ways to improve outcomes and increase survival of women with advanced cancer

With your support, we can change the lives of cancer patients!

Our initial focus is helping patients navigate the healthcare system through education and assistance in finding resources, providing activities to help enhance quality of life, and providing companionship through a volunteer program ($25,000 or more depending on the number of women we serve).  We also need to recruit and train volunteers ($4,000).  We hope to send a representative of our organization to scientific conferences (i.e., American Association for Cancer Research and American Society of Clinical Oncology) to keep informed of current scientific research, patient advocacy programs, and present our own research ($4,000).

In the future, we will need to lease space in Houston near the medical center to establish a patient community center and cancer research center ($30,000 to $80,000 to include research facilities).  We need to buy computers, furniture, and equipment for patients to use ($25,000).  In addition, we need to acquire laboratory equipment for research (over $100,000).

If you are in Houston and know a location available for us to lease, know a woman with advanced cancer that needs our assistance, or would like to volunteer or help in any way, please contact us at [email redacted].

For more details, please visit our website: www.angelmira.org and visit us on Facebook: @angelmira.org

Thank you very much for your generosity!!!!!

Angelmira’s Center for Women with Advanced Cancer

 
References:

1.      https://training.seer.cancer.gov/disease/war/

2.      American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures 2019 (https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/cancer-facts-figures-2019.html)

3.      We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.  Your donations can be deducted to the extent allowed by law.