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Our annual Gala Celebration is coming up soon!  Please plan to join us November 9th at the Pines Manor.  Make your reservations here: https://fifthdistrictahepacrf.com/annual-evening-of-celebration/ .  A short program will announce new grants and introduce the grantees.  Dancing and celebration will fill the evening! MATCHING DONATIONS: If your employer offers a matching program for donations by […]

This month’s newsletter continues to share the research that our Fifth District AHEPA Family Cancer Research Foundation, with your donations, support.  At our Celebration last November, we issued research grants to three research teams.  Two of the teams and their work were highlighted in our recent newsletters [https://fifthdistrictahepacrf.com/news/]. The third research team we are highlighting

In last month’s newsletter, we discussed how advances in cancer research have improved survival rates by detecting cancer earlier, when treatments are most effective. However, pancreatic cancer remains a challenging exception to this progress. While it is not as common as lung, breast, or colorectal cancers, its incidence is increasing. Pancreatic cancer has one of

Make sure to Save the Date, November 9th, for our next Gala According to the American Cancer Society, the estimated number of new cases in 2024 will cross the two-million mark for the first time ever.  The main types of cancer affecting men and women, however, will remain largely the same as in previous years. 

Greetings from the 5th District AHEPA Family Cancer Research Foundation! We are thrilled to share with you highlights from the 35th Annual Fifth District AHEPA Cancer Research Foundation Celebration that was held this past November. In future updates, we will be sharing with you this year the work that the Foundation is supporting to reach