The American-Italian Cancer Foundation's mission is to access the unique human and financial resources of the United States and Italy to address unmet needs in the war on cancer. To accomplish this mission, it uses resources from both countries to undertake and communicate path-breaking research and conferences, funds fellowships, develops model service programs and provides recognition to those who make this mission possible.

The American Melanoma Foundation (AMF) was founded to address the need for new treatment options in melanoma, one of the most serious of all cancers. The AMF provides support for basic research for new treatments in melanoma and contributes to the general community with education and awareness programs. The AMF also contributes to the patient community through patient support groups, a critical need for patients with this disease and the unique issues they are facing.

The Angel Care--Breast Cancer Foundation, a non profit, provides free emotional care to newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Trained volunteers, all survivors, serve as role models, providing hope and encouragement.

We focus on providing one-on-one emotional care. Volunteers are available to accompany patients to treatments, share information about coping, the power of prayers, and how a positive attitude can help to survive. We are committed to at least six contacts with each referral.

Presently, volunteers cover the greater Puget Sound area of Washington.

The Annie Appleseed Project is an all-volunteer patient advocacy 501 (C)3 providing information and education to people with cancer, family and friends especially about complementary, alternative (CAM), natural and integrative therapies, and more, from the patient perspective. We hold a national meeting on Evidence-based CAM for Cancer and advocate for more research done in a meaningful way. We support a person's right to make more informed decisions.

Since 1974, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) has been the premier education and advocacy organization for the multidisciplinary cancer care team. ACCC promotes the entire continuum of quality cancer care for our patients and our communities. For more than 30 years, ACCC has been helping oncology professionals adapt to the complex changes of delivering quality cancer care while responding to regulatory and legislative changes.

The Bone and Cancer Foundation (BCF) is a new information and education resource for patients with cancer and bone involvement and their healthcare providers. BCF provides information through print publications and the BCF website www.boneandcancerfoundation.org.
There are currently six publications: Prostate Cancer, Bone Metastases, & Treatment-Related Osteoporosis; Breast Cancer, Bone Metastases, & Treatment-Related Bone Loss; What Lung Cancer Patients Need to Know About Bone Health; Myeloma Bone Disease: Current and Future Treatment; Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: Information for Cancer Patients; Vitamin D Deficiency: Information for Cancer Patients. Additional publications will be available in 2009.

In response to the public health crisis of breast cancer, The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF) identifies -- and advocates for elimination of -- the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. Founded in 1992, TBCF works from the knowledge that breast cancer is not simply a personal tragedy, but a public health priority that demands action from all.

TheBreastCareSite.com was developed to address the general needs of all who have been touched by breast cancer, including newly diagnosed patients and long time survivors, as well as their friends, family members and coworkers. But our unique and specific mission focuses on providing breast cancer survivors with accurate information about everything from post-surgery options and products to information about insurance and intimacy issues.

At The International Myeloma Foundation, our commitment is to provide you with the most up to date and in-depth information about multiple myeloma including research and treatment advances, as well as information about the IMF, upcoming events and our reserach, education, support and advocacy programs.

Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) is a non-profit educational organization committed to empowering all women affected by breast cancer to live as long as possible with the best quality of life. Programs include semi-annual large scale educational conferences, a quarterly educational newsletter, outreach to medically under-served women, a consumer focused educational booklet, the Paula A. Seidman Library and Resource Center, Young Survivors group, the Survivors' Helpline and a web site.

Malecare is a nonprofit grassroots network of cancer patients and clinicians. Established in 1997, Malecare's mission is to help men and their families and friends fight prostate cancer, testicular cancer and male breast cancer via support groups, workshops, research, conferences, publications and counseling; most all available for free and open to the public. We are the world's only men's health organization to focus on gay men and cancer as well as access to health care for underserved members of minority populations.

The Melanoma Patients' Information Page (MPIP) is a noncommercial site founded to provide support and information to melanoma patients and those who care for them. The MPIP is founded on the belief that proactive patients who educate themselves to take an active role in decisions regarding their therapy can effect their outcome in a positive way.

The National Lung Cancer Partnership (formerly Women Against Lung Cancer) is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, originally formed in 2001, and officially incorporated in 2003. Our mission is to decrease deaths due to lung cancer, and help patients live longer and better, through research, awareness, and advocacy.

We will accomplish the above mission by:

• Raising awareness of the deadly impact of lung cancer epidemic, particularly upon women
• Increasing funding for lung cancer research
• Supporting and promoting research into sex differences in lung cancer
• Encouraging professionals, particularly women, to enter into and be successful in lung cancer research, treatment and care

NPF is the only national not-for-profit group dedicated to scientific research in all forms of pancreatic disease - both pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Over the past 6 years, we have funded 32 research projects. We also support patients and doctors through our website, literature, patient education nights, workshops for scientists, support groups, and advocacy efforts.

SHADE Foundation of America is working to create sun-safety attitudes in society, especially in our youth. Developing responsible sun attitudes at an early age can eliminate the alarming statistics that continue to increase. Skin Cancer is the most common form of cancer in the US with more than 1 million new cases diagnosed each year. Approximately 92,000 will be melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.

SHADE Foundation is where melanoma patients, survivors and their families can find information and support. Parents and teachers can find programs to educate their children. Corporations and individuals can learn how they can provide sun-safety to children.

A patient-directed, self-help organization dedicated to meeting the needs of oral and head and neck cancer patients. SPOHNC (Support for People with Oral Head and Neck Cancer), founded in 1991 by an oral cancer survivor, addresses the broad emotional, physical and humanistic needs of this population.

The mission of the Sarcoma Foundation of America is to act as an advocate for increased research to find new and better therapies with which to treat patients with sarcoma. The SFA raises its own funds to provide research grants to sarcoma researchers. The SFA also interacts with public (NCI, FDA, etc.), private for-profit (pharmaceutical companies, etc.) and private non-profit (e.g., philanthropic foundations) organizations to raise awareness of the treatment needs of sarcoma patients.

SusanLoveMD.org is a non profit organization dedicated to the eradication of breast cancer through innovation and generation of Education, Research and Advocacy.