$8.5M Gift Received By American Cancer Society To Finance Thyroid Cancer Research

The American Cancer Society, the nation’s largest voluntary health organization, has received a gift of $8.5 million from a single anonymous donor. The contribution, one of the largest individual scientific research gifts in the Society’s 95-year history, will be earmarked for targeted investigation into a genetic disorder that leads to a high lifetime risk of several types of cancer, most often thyroid cancer.

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Filed under: Endocrinology on July 31st, 2008