Supporting Cancer Research

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We invite you to join us. With your personal commitment and financial support, we can profoundly improve our understanding of cancer, discover new ways to diagnose and treat cancer, and ultimately discover the means to prevent cancer.

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Bernard and Edith Waterman
Patients and Benefactors

"We've reached the point that the material things in life are not important anymore. Our focus is the passion to give and the passion of life. We decided that we wanted to do something for medicine and for Mayo that would be the future, not today and not yesterday."

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Why support cancer research at Mayo Clinic?

Mayo Clinic's tradition of patient-centered care has long made it a place of hope. Our success stems from the philosophy laid out more than 100 years ago – that medicine is best practiced as a cooperative science. At Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, patient care, research and education are interdependent.

World-Renowned Care

More than 16,000 new cancer patients come to Mayo Clinic Cancer Center every year because they know they will receive the best possible care. Cancer patients at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center benefit not only from state-of-the-art cancer care, but also from access to comprehensive medical care at one of the most prestigious medical centers in the world. Cancer is a complex disease and cancer patients often need care for multiple medical issues. At Mayo Clinic, teams of experts from all medical disciplines combine their skills and experience to treat patients. Mayo Clinic thoroughly diagnoses and treats complex medical problems in every specialty.

Read more about Mayo Clinic Cancer Center's place in the top echelon of cancer centers designated as Comprehensive Cancer Centers by the National Cancer Institute.

Reputation

Mayo Clinic is a model for medical practice throughout the world. More than 6 million people have been treated at Mayo since its founding. Today, Mayo Clinic encompasses three clinics and four hospitals in three states, employing more than 46,000 physicians, scientists, nurses and allied health workers. Through growth and change, Mayo Clinic remains committed to its guiding principle, as articulated by Dr. William J. Mayo, "The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered."

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Highlights of recent advances

Researchers and physicians at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center are preventing cancer, treating the effects of cancer and prolonging and enhancing lives. Listed below are just a few of our research advances.

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has:

• Enhanced our understanding of what goes wrong in cells that can lead to inherited forms of breast cancer – the first step in designing drugs that can correct it and prevent the onset of cancer.
• Pioneered the use of Spiral CT to screen patients for lung cancer faster and detect it at an earlier stage.

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