Susan G. Komen
Susan G. Komen is the best-known breast cancer charity, a major funder of research and a large provider of patient navigation and financial assistance, with a patient-driven research registry that shares data for metastatic breast cancer research.
Founded 1982. Beyond awareness (the pink ribbon), Komen funds research including early support for HER2-directed therapy and metastatic breast cancer studies, runs the Breast Care Helpline and Treatment Assistance Program, the Komen Tissue Bank at IU Simon (normal breast tissue), ShareForCures (patient-consented data and biospecimens), and advocates on stage IV disease, disparities (Stand for H.E.R. for Black women) and coverage of diagnostic imaging. Other key groups: Breast Cancer Research Foundation (research funding), Living Beyond Breast Cancer, METAvivor (metastatic research), Young Survival Coalition.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- CollectionAmerican Cancer Society (ACS)
Shares Cancer health disparities and equity, Mammography & tomosynthesis and the tags gap-fill, patient-org.
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Shares BRCA1 / BRCA2 (HRD) and the tags gap-fill, patient-org.
- CollectionColorectal Cancer Alliance
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- CollectionLeukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)
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- CollectionLUNGevity Foundation (and GO2 for Lung Cancer)
Shares the tags gap-fill, patient-org.
- CollectionLymphoma Research Foundation (LRF)
Shares the tags gap-fill, patient-org.
- CollectionMelanoma Research Alliance (MRA)
Shares the tags gap-fill, patient-org.
- CollectionMultiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)
Shares the tags gap-fill, patient-org.