Finding Answers to Cancer Campaign

To date, the Finding Answers to Cancer Campaign has raised more than $63,000,000 for cancer research, patient support and outreach and prevention at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center. While we have seen unprecedented growth at the Brown Cancer Center, our work has just begun.

Research in our cancer center is growing at levels seen at very few other centers. The Brown Cancer Center has quickly become known as a place where new treatments can be developed quickly. Its scientists have three new cancer treatments in early trials, four drugs in preclinical testing and more than a dozen additional new cancer drugs in the development pipeline.

The Brown Cancer Center's researchers are pioneering the first use in patients of a unique nontoxic treatment for cancer, which is showing good results in early phase clinical trials in human, with no negative side effects.

The center's scientists were part of the team that invented the world's first 100 percent effective cervical cancer vaccine. They are now working on a less expensive version that will make it possible to vaccinate millions of women throughout the world against this disease, which is the number-one cancer killer of women in the developing world.

A Brown Cancer Center team discovered that a dietary stimulant called beta-glucan can markedly enhance the immune response against tumors. This is now being tested for the first time in humans at the Brown Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

These discoveries are giving people with cancer hope for a cure. But even beyond the human impact, the Brown Cancer Center is having a clear economic impact on our community.

A 2006 economic report indicates that for every dollar invested in research through federal grants, the local economy grows by $2.20, mainly through the creation of new jobs. In 2007 Brown Cancer Center physician-scientists attracted $31.8 million in federal research grants, which translates into approximately $70 million in economic benefits to Kentucky.

With financial support from federal research grants – and private gifts from people like you – the Brown Cancer Center's incredible researchers are finding answers to cancer.