Why a race for reason?
Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas is proud to partner with UNC Charlotte for its 2nd annual campus community race event. Proceeds will benefit the Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas (BTFC) to support local brain cancer research, clinical trials and patient support as well as a newly developing brain cancer research program at UNC Charlotte to serve the Charlotte community. UNC Charlotte and BTFC formed a strategic partnership in 2004 to develop a multi-million dollar nationally competitive brain cancer research program at UNC Charlotte that will partner with cancer physicians in the region’s major healthcare systems to bring a new level of specialized cancer care to the Charlotte population. For more information about this program, please visit www.charlotteresearchinstitute.com.
Who's behind RuBiRu?
UNC Charlotte
UNC Charlotte comprises seven professional colleges and currently offers 18 doctoral programs, 60 master’s degree programs and 85 programs leading to bachelor’s degrees. As the fourth-largest of the 17-constituent University of North Carolina system and the largest higher education institution in the Charlotte region, UNC Charlotte enrollment exceeds 22,000 students, including more than 4,400 graduate students. For more information, please visit www.uncc.edu.
Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas
Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas (BTFC) is a non-profit foundation established in 2003 by former Bank of America executive Jim Palermo and Charlotte neurosurgeon Dr. Anthony Asher with a vision of developing specialized cancer care and treatments for Charlotte brain cancer patients. BTFC hosts the Presbyterian Invitational Criterium (www.charlottecriterium.org) as its cornerstone fundraising event as well as funds cancer research at UNC Charlotte along with cancer clinical trials in the Charlotte community. For more information, please visit www.btfcnc.org.
The Promise of Cancer Research
As the second most common cause of death, cancer is one of the great public health threats of our time, accounting for one of every four deaths in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1.4 million individuals will be diagnosed with all forms of cancer this year. Recent new advances in cancer treatments and therapies have increased survival odds and quality of life for cancer patients. The next decade shows great promise for even greater success in this direction. But cancer has not yet been eliminated. For many there is no cure once their cancer has spread. This is especially true with brain cancer. It has been estimated that up to 20 percent of patients with all forms of systemic cancers (i.e., breast, lung, skin) will ultimately experience spread of their cancers to the brain. Brain metastases often confound otherwise successful systemic cancer treatments as most therapies cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, leaving most patients with bleak prognoses.
Why Charlotte?
Although Charlotte is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country without a medical school, it has all the right components for the development of a nationally competitive brain cancer research program.
RuBiRu
Please help us actively acknowledge and pay tribute to cancer patients, both survivors and those that lost the battle with cancer, by running and/or biking as a sponsored participant or making a donation in someone’s honor or memory for cancer research in Charlotte. To hear cancer patient testimonials, visit www.btfcnc.org and click on the PLAY button.
Here's what your money could buy for cancer research:
| $100 | funds a patient treatment conference |
|---|---|
| $500 | funds the travel expenses for a distinguished professor to visit and provide education for local brain tumor support staff |
| $1,000 | buys a molecular (DNA ) test that we could perform on an individual patient’s tumor |
| $2,000 | funds one month of a clinical trial research internship for an undergraduate or medical student |
| $3,000 | funds a development course for our brain tumor research staff |
| $3,500 | funds a laptop computer that brain tumor patients can use to review brain tumor related facts or enter their own information into a patient outcomes database |
| $5,000 | allows us to enroll another patient on a clinical brain cancer study |
| $10,000 | funds two patients on a brain tumor clinical trial, funding for a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes for a particular therapy for publication |
| $20,000 | funds the development of a comprehensive brain tumor outcomes database |
| $30,000 | funds a year’s salary for a clinical research associate. |
| $40,000 | funds a year’s salary for a brain tumor nurse clinician, a data base manager or a tissue collection technician |
| $100,000 | funds the acquisition of a liquid nitrogen freezer to store brain tissue specimens |
Contact Info
The Brain Tumor Fund for the Carolinas
Post Office Box 5627, Charlotte, NC 28299
P: 704-821-0110
www.btfcnc.org
Thanks
Thanks to all the volunteers that made this possible.
