Fight Colorectal Cancer advocates for increased funding and awareness for colorectal cancer research and treatment. They educate patients and caregivers and push for policy changes to advance research. Though they accept funding from various sources, their programs are developed for those affected by colorectal cancer. Advocacy has led to greater public research funding and clinical trials for colorectal cancer compared to other cancers, but more work remains as mortality rates remain high.

1. ADVOCACY MAKES A
DIFFERENCE
Nancy Roach
Call on Congress
March 6, 2012

2. About FightColorectalCancer
• We envision victory over colorectal
cancer.
• Fight Colorectal Cancer demands a cure
for colon and rectal cancer. We educate
and support patients and caregivers,
push for changes in policy that will
increase and improve research, and
empower survivors to raise their voices
against the status quo.

3. Disclosure
• We accept unrestricted funding from
individuals, foundations, industry and
device companies to support our
programs.
• Our programs are developed for our
constituency – people touched by
colorectal cancer.
• Please feel free to support us!

4. Making a difference
• Publicly-funded research
• Philanthropy
• Seat at the table

5. Public Research Dollars
Breast Colorectal
Action
Cancer Cancer
$12.8M
Research funding in the Department of shared with
$120M
Defense, 2012 other
cancers
Funding for research at the National Cancer
$631.2M $270.4M
Institute, 2010
Mortality, 2012 39,510 51,690

6. Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
• The pancreatic cancer research community has historically been
small, fragmented, and poorly funded. The Pancreatic Cancer
Action Network believes that a comprehensive strategy is
needed to achieve a comprehensive cure. Through our research
grants program, we attract brilliant early career scientists and
investigators with innovative ideas to study pancreatic
cancer. By recruiting the brightest scientists with the most novel
ideas, we continue to build a broad research community, poised
to make significant scientific discoveries.
• The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network grants are administered
in partnership with the American Association for Cancer
Research (AACR) to ensure rigorous peer-review of grant
applications, so that only the most promising science is
selected for funding.
• 2012 grants: $3.7M

7. Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
• Accelerate Phase I and Phase II clinical trials
– Collaboration of14 academic research centers
– Advanced over 20 clinical trials
• Trials conducted in the collaboration open 30-
40% faster than average
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8. Seat at the Table

9. Talk doesn’t cook rice – Chinese Proverb
We are here to cook – Fight Colorectal Cancer
THANK YOU!