Transforming Cancer Care

“You have cancer.” Next year, 1.6 million Americans will hear those words, and begin the fight of their lives. They will battle an incredibly complex disease, face lengthy treatments across multiple specialties, and navigate a system of care that can seem uncoordinated, confusing, and focused on everything but them.

We can do better. Transforming Cancer Care is a comprehensive and unprecedented effort to put the world’s best cancer science to work for patients and deliver a new, transformative model of care. Armed with the power of Stanford’s biomedical innovation, the compassion of our caregivers, and the support of visionary philanthropic partners like you, we’ll turn deadly diagnoses into conditions that can be treated, managed, transcended—or maybe, prevented altogether.

"We are entering a period during which major translational discoveries will transform our approach to treating cancer patients. Stanford has remarkable strengths in innovation, basic science, clinical medicine and translation. We’re also fortunate to have extraordinary people, including faculty, trainees, nurses and staff. At Stanford Cancer Institute, we’re uniquely positioned to drive forward the next wave of discoveries to benefit our cancer patients."

Steven Artandi, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford Cancer Institute
Jerome and Daisy Low Gilbert Professor and Professor of Biochemistry

Compassion for
patients and families

“Healing isn’t just taking medicines, it’s having your family and friends around...”

A new way forward

Offering bold new approaches for treatment, prediction, prevention, and survival.

Creating a new standard
of care

Changing more than the prognosis and experience of cancer patients.

Fighting the toughest cancers

Turning deadly diagnoses into manageable conditions begins in the laboratory.

Capturing the power of Stanford science

Understanding cancers at their basic biological level is the beginning.

Seizing the innovations
of our age

Funding innovative research ideas that will capture the possibilities of our age.

How will we know when we’ve succeeded?

  • When our patients and their families say we have taken responsibility for the complexity of their care
  • When multidisciplinary care coordinators guide every patient and every family through every step of their cancer journey
  • When more patients—especially those with the toughest cancers—have realistic hopes for good outcomes
  • When no game-changing cancer research idea at Stanford goes unexplored due to lack of funding
  • When diagnosis and treatment are overshadowed by prediction and prevention
  • When our new model is replicated across other disease areas and around the world
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Follow @StanfordCancer on Twitter to learn more about Stanford Medicine's world-class cancer research, prevention, and treatment programs.

To learn more about how you can get involved, contact Medical Center Development.

Michele Thompson
Senior Associate Director, Major Gifts
Specialist Fundraiser, Cancer Initiatives
michelet@stanford.edu

650.725.1109