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Help Cancer Fighters in Need at the Stephenson Cancer Center
The Sooner Stilettos are teaming up with OU Women’s Basketball Coach Sherri Coale and the Stephenson Cancer Center to fight a tough opponent – cancer.
Cancer creates many challenges – physically, emotionally, and financially. Recognizing the breadth of what cancer affects, the Stephenson Cancer Center has financial navigators, nutritional guidance, distress management services, and other supportive care services to help with these challenges.
Services like these are only made possible through philanthropic dollars – and we need your help to continue providing resources to Oklahoma cancer fighters.
With your donation, the Stephenson Cancer Center will be able to increase the support we are able to provide patients through lodging and transportation assistance, gas cards, complimentary wigs and headwraps, and even preventative care like mammograms.
Every dollar counts. Every donation makes a difference. Join our team and lets #CURECANCERSOONER
About the Stephenson Cancer Center
Oklahoma’s only comprehensive academic cancer center, the Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma is a nationally noted leader in research and patient care. The Stephenson Cancer Center annually ranks among the top three cancer centers in the nation for patients participating in National Cancer Institute-sponsored treatment trials, and it is one of 30 designated lead centers nationally in the Institute’s National Clinical Trials Network. In collaboration with the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, the Stephenson Cancer Center is decreasing the burden of cancer in Oklahoma by supporting innovative laboratory, clinical and populations-based research. The Stephenson Cancer Center has 250 research members who are conducting more than 215 cancer research projects at institutions across Oklahoma.This research is supported by $48.3 million in annual funding from the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and other sponsors.
Cancer patients often fight cancer on their own, and basic tasks like driving themselves to treatment become a challenge. Your gift will provide a taxi ride for Oklahoma City-based patients who are in need of transportation to treatment.
More than 40 percent of patients travel more than 50 miles to get to nationally recognized cancer care at the Stephenson Cancer Center. The cost of gas adds up quickly, and your gift will provide a Gas Card to a cancer fighter in need of assistance.
Cancer treatment can cause many physical changes such as hair loss. Your gift will provide women battling cancer with the opportunity to receive a wig or head wrap at no cost.
Cancer patients and their caregivers are often away from their home for weeks – or even months – at a time. Your gift will provide hotel lodging for a cancer fighter in need of assistance during treatment.
Approximately 1 in five Oklahoma women are without health insurance and are unable to receive a routine mammogram. Your gift will provide mammogram services for Oklahoma women while contributing to public health research on how to improve access to care.
