The Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation
Description of the Organization’s Mission:
Since 2001, the Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation (ASCF) has raised both awareness and critical funds needed to meet the needs of thousands of persons diagnosed with sarcoma. The organization has made great strides in offering tangible support to families and has succeeded in supporting promising young researchers. ASCF continues to educate the public about sarcoma and works to ensure easy access to information, child care, financial assistance and temporary housing for families affected by sarcoma who come to Houston to receive treatment from doctors who specialize in treating sarcomas. The Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation was the first and only non profit to focus equal attention on increasing awareness, research and tangible support for families affected by sarcomas.
Website: http://www.sarcomacancer.org/
Cancer Care
Description of Organization’s Mission:
For more than 60 years, CancerCare- a national non-profit organization- has helped people with cancer and their loves ones with the challenges that come along with cancer’s diagnosis. They provide professional counseling, educational programs, financial guidance, and referrals to helpful resources- all completely free of charge. They have oncology social workers tht know that when someone is first diagnosed, it may seem overwhelming. From the moment of diagnosis, life will never be the same, but CancerCare can help make living with cancer a little easier.
Website: http://www.cancercare.org/
The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative
Description of Organization's Mission:
The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative undertakes activities that help improve the quality of life for people dealing with sarcoma. Central to this mission are our goals of increasing public awareness of sarcoma and the lack of young adults in cancer based clinical trials and raising funds for sarcoma related research. We believe that increased public awareness of sarcoma will lead to increased research funding and that research will ultimately lead to a cure for sarcoma.
We also support organizations that provide programs to directly aid and help sarcoma patients.
Website: http://www.liddyshriversarcomainitiative.org/ and www.sarcomahelp.org
The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative website features a great educational resource, the Electronic Sarcoma Update Newsletter (ESUN). ESUN is an online, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly newsletter which contains articles of interest to patients, caregivers, physicians, and nurses.
LMSarcoma Direct Research Foundation
Description of Organization’s Mission:
The mission of LMSarcoma Direct Research Foundation is to assure the development of the means to cure and control the disease known as Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) and to improve the quality of life for those with this disease until the cure is found.
Website: www.lmsdr.org
Sarcoma Alliance
Description of Organization’s Mission:
The Sarcoma Alliance strives to improve and extend the lives of sarcoma patients through accurate diagnosis, improved access to care, guidance, education and support. This mission statement drives all decisions about our programs and future plans.
We refer patients to sarcoma centers throughout the United States and through our Assistance Fund provide financial support to those seeking second opinions from sarcoma specialists. We provide educational information on our website, provide links to other websites and will send up to date diagnosis specific written materials on request. We also have a bulletin board where patients can receive information and support and conduct a twice a week web based support group so that patients, families and caregivers can learn and get support from others with similar experiences.
Website: http://www.sarcomaalliance.org
Sarcoma Foundation of America
Description of Organization's Mission: The mission of the Sarcoma Foundation of America (SFA) is to act as an advocate for increased research to find new and better therapies with which to treat patients with sarcoma. The SFA raises its own funds to provide research grants to sarcoma researchers. The SFA also interacts with public, private for-profit, and private nonprofit organizations to raise awareness of the treatment needs of sarcoma patients.
Website: www.curesarcoma.org