fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

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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 cause, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer.
  • Improve health and quality of life.

For more information about its important work, please contact our team members below or visit its website at www.unmc.edu/cancercenter

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Greater Nebraska Cancer Prevention and Research Fund

This fund supports addressing the hardships of cancer in rural Nebraska, including the environmental and hereditary causes of cancer, increasing screening across the state, and other efforts that will help us expand and improve our ability to diagnose and prevent cancer in our state’s population.


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.


Breast Cancer Research and Development Fund

This fund supports the mission of the UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center to discover better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent breast cancer.


Cattlemens Ball of Nebraska/Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Fund


Kenneth Cowan, MD, PhD, Distinguished Chair in Breast Cancer Clinical Research Endowed Fund


Research Fund for Advancements in Lung, Head & Neck Cancer

Your gift to this fund will go toward the benefit and support of lung, head, neck, esophagus, and related cancer research and the education and related activities at the UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.


Hope Fund for Women’s Cancer Research

Your gift to this fund will go toward the benefit and support of breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancer research and the education and related activities at the UNMC Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.


Hope Fund for Lymphoma and Leukemia Research

Gifts made to this fund will support cutting-edge research in the areas of leukemia, lymphoma and Myeloma.


Hope Fund for Solid Tumor Cancer Research

Gifts to this fund support the efforts toward solid tumor cancer research.


Research Fund for Advancements in Pancreatic Cancer

This fund supports the mission of the UNMC Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center to discover better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent pancreatic cancer.


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