Please help us earn a 250,000 dollar grant from Pepsi:
Goals
* To reduce the death rate from oral cancer
* To promote oral cancer screenings
* Let it be known, if found early oral cancer has a 80-90% survival rate
Overview of the The Oral Cancer Foundation
Is a killer hiding under your nose? In America, 100 people are newly diagnosed with oral cancer everyday, making it the sixth most common cancer. Surprisingly, this sixth most common cancer has one of the highest death rates. Almost half of those diagnosed do not make it past five years, and the rate of those diagnosed is on the rise. This high death rate is not occurring because these cancers are hard to discover, it is because of a lack of public awareness combined with a lack of a national program for screenings. The Oral Cancer Foundation can take that rate down by promoting oral cancer screenings through a public service announcement that will reach every household with a TV in America. Spreading the message to ask your dentist for an Oral Cancer screening. Oral Cancer is a hard disease to swallow. Detection can be easy, treatment is not! With $250,000, the Oral Cancer Foundation lowers the death rate from Oral Cancer.
How will the 250K be Used?
OCF will use all $250,000 to cover the cost of a nationwide public service commercial during April, oral cancer awareness month. We will use our volunteers and staff to film the commercial eliminating extra costs.
