HUMANE CHARITY SPOTLIGHT

The Cancer Treatment Research Foundation

Since awarding its first grant in 1994, the Cancer Treatment Research Foundation has supported some of the most gifted researchers in conventional, integrative, and complementary medicine. The mission of this Illinois-based foundation is to eliminate cancer by funding innovative, patient-driven clinical research that moves research from the laboratory to the patients who urgently need it.

Since 1995, the foundation has committed over $15 million to researchers around the world. It actively monitors the progress of funded researchers to ensure real progress in studies by measuring the positive impacts on patients. Projects funded include studies on all types of cancer, patient quality of life, novel immunology treatments, and integrative medicine therapies. Significant advances have been made by CTRF-funded researchers in vaccine therapies for lung cancer and Multiple Myeloma and in treating chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, a painful nerve toxicity that can result from some types of chemotherapy.

And it does all this without ever using animals. “It is important for CTRF to have the Humane Charity Seal of Approval," says Fern Ingber, CTRF's president. "The research we approve across the world is well past the test-tube stage and has never included animal testing. Instead, we fund clinical research that is integrative, patient-centered, and has the highest likelihood of having immediate patient impact."

For more information, please visit www.CTRF.org.

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