Cancer Priorities

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Support the fight against cancer through the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

Thank you for your interest in advancing the critical work underway at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Your gift helps us continue our battle against cancer. The mission of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is to:

Coordinate basic research and clinical cancer research.
Provide patient care and educational programs.
Facilitate application of new knowledge about the etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer.
Improve health and quality of life.

For more information about its important work, please see its website at Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

The Hope Fund for Cancer Research

The Hope Fund for Cancer Research supports the UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center by being a resource to help meet the most pressing needs to advance life-saving cancer research.

Nebraska Medicine Oncology Patient and Family Experience Fund

This fund was established so that patients and families can receive assistance with transportation, meal vouchers or other personal needs while undergoing treatment at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Blood and Lymphatic Cancers Research Innovation Fund

Your gift to this fund shall be used for research related to blood and lymphatic cancers in the Oncology and Hematology Division at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Solid Tumor Research Fund

This fund supports the mission of the UNMC to discover better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent solid tumor cancers.

Hematological Malignancies Fund

This fund supports cutting-edge research in the areas of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, acute and chronic leukemias, myelodysplastic syndromes and multiple myeloma, among other related diseases.

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