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| FORE Cancer Research was formed as a grass roots vehicle to help raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Our goal is to raise $1 million dollars through the help of the Buckeyes FORE Cancer Research Charity Pro-Am Golf Event, the Give 18 FORE Cancer Research campaign, and individual donations. Together we CAN make a difference and help put an end, once and for all, to this terrible disease. |
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Total money raised FORE Cancer Research: $252,000* |
FORE Cancer Research is a 501.c.3 organization. |
| * Includes matching funds. |
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| In the time it takes you to read this short page of information, another five people will be diagnosed with cancer and two more people will have died from cancer. Cancer kills about one American every minute of every day, or about 1,500 people every 24 hours. |
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- About 1.4 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2006. More than 20 million new cancer cases have been diagnosed since 1990.
- One of every two men and one out of three women will get cancer in their lifetimes.
- Three out of every four American families will have at least one family member diagnosed with cancer.
- About 565,000 Americans are expected to die of cancer in 2006. In the U.S., cancer is the second leading cause of death, responsible for 1 in 4 deaths.
- According to the National Institutes of Health, overall costs for cancer in 2005 were nearly $210 billion, including medical costs, the cost of lost productivity due to illness and the cost of lost productivity due to premature death.
- Approximately 77 percent of all cancers are diagnosed in people aged 55 and older.
- An estimated 9,500 new cases of cancer are anticipated among children aged 14 and younger in 2006. Other than accidents, cancer is the leading cause of death among children.
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