Our Mission
The Colon Cancer Challenge Foundation’s mission includes: supporting research into the causes and cures for colorectal cancer; increasing public awareness; educating the public about the importance of early detection; and forming strategic partnerships in the fight against colorectal cancer.
Our Promise
- To raise awareness of colorectal cancer (CRC), the importance of early detection and the most effective screening methods available.
- To increase awareness of CRC risk factors and factors that may help prevent CRC, including family/genetic history, exercise and nutrition.
- To reduce the disparity that exists in CRC incidence and mortality rates by providing funds to improve screening rates in underserved and uninsured communities.
- To award translational research grants to young investigators studying genetic and epigenetic changes that will ultimately lead to new breakthroughs in the prevention,therapy and elimination of CRC in our lifetime.
- To leverage the impact of our donors’ support by developing broad public/private partnerships with local, regional, and national organizations invested in a mutual goal of increasing national screening rates to 80% by 2018.