What is International Cancer Alliance for Research and Education (ICARE)?

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“Nobody cares for me like ICARE”

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Why Choose Us?

Managing a life-threatening or life-disrupting illness is often accompanied by a feeling of being overwhelmed. Compounding the physiological impact of the disease, you brave through myriad tests, doctors’ visits, and critical decisions regarding procedures and medications-often while second-guessing whether you’re making the right choices. To help guide you through the process, we are providing you with an unprecedented level of support through a global consortium of physicians and research scientists conferring with you and your personal doctor every step of the way.

1) ICARE was founded and is managed by academic medical scientists and doctors

2) An increasing number of our cancer registrants are scientists/doctors or members of their family

3) With ICARE you can join, support, and learn from creative scientists who are pursuing technologies that may directly benefit you and your doctor

4) Due to ICARE’s live-tissue biobanking contacts, your tissues can be biologically tested for their sensitivity to various global therapeutic options, biomarker and clinical studies

5) After 30 years of distributing therapeutic options and diagnostic advances to the general public, ICARE has switched to creating and funding real-time investigative teams to urgently collaborate, identify, evaluate and accelerate access global options for local patients and their doctors.

ICARE’s Approach to Cancer Patient Care

In recent years, ICARE’s programs began to shift in focus from just providing therapy information to patients to identifying, initiating and funding cutting-edge research projects to “target for destruction”, the tumors of individual patients. In 2010 some of the ICARE global scientists accepted the challenge of partnering with local individual cancer patients and their doctors to form a type of “Manhattan Project” that would try and find viable solutions in “real-time” for immediate clinical issues facing the doctor and patient. Virtual Global Investigative Teams (I-Teams) were assembled and a new approach to patient care called the 10-Step I-Team Process.

Leaderships, Partners, And Sponsors:

The list of Volunteers below includes individuals who have served in the past or are currently serving on
ICARE boards, committees or as advisors. These lists are intended only to illustrate the high quality of
individuals who have been attracted to participate in ICARE programs.

Name, Title	Location	Name, Title	Location
Henry Brem, M.D.	Johns Hopkins University	Michael Link, M.D.	Stanford University
Daniel Brookoff, M.D., Ph.D	Reed Baskin Cancer Center	Marc Lippman, M. D.	Miami University
Stanley Cohen, Ph.D.*	Vanderbilt University	Susan M. Love, M.D.	UCLA
Anthony Coletta, Ph.D.	Cambridge University	Hans Messner, Ph.D.	Toronto, Canada
Nancy E. Davidson, M.D.	Johns Hopkins University	Yasuda Muira, M.D.	Jichi Medical School, Japan
Allen Eaves, M.D.	Vancouver, Canada	Wolfram Ostertag, Ph. D.	Hamburg, Germany
Marc Garnick, M.D.	Harvard University	Howard Pearson, M.D.	Yale University
Donna Williams, Ph. D.	Memorial Sloan-Kettering	William Peters, M.D.	Duke/Wayne St. University
Alfred L. Goldson, M.D.	Howard University	Bernard Poiesz, M. D.	SUNY/Syracuse
James S. Gordon, M.D.	Ctr. For Mind-Body Medicine	Martin Dreyling, M.D.	Univ. Munich, Germany
Melvyn Greaves, Ph. D.	London, England	Jack A. Schalken, Ph.D.	Univ. Nijmegen
Jimmie C. Holland, M.D.	Memorial Sloan-Kettering	Anil K. Rustgi, M.D.	Netherlands
Deane Jacques, M.D.	Neuroscience Institute	Gordon Sato, Ph. D.	Harvard University
Junyao Li , M. D.	Beijing Med. Sch., China	Andrew V. Schally, Ph. D.*	Tulane University
Benita Katzenellenbogen, Ph.D	University of Illinois	Jerry L. Spivak, M. D.	Johns Hopkins University
Byoung-Kook Kim, M.D.	Seoul, South Korea	Arthur J. Sytkowski, M.D.	Harvard University
Raymond Kuhn, Ph.D	Wake Forest University

*Nobel Laureate

 

Board of Trustees

Name, Title	Location
W. David Hankins, Ph.D	ICARE Chairmen, Bethesda, MD
Raymond Kuhn, Ph.D	Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
George Hemstreet, M.D., Ph.D	Univ. Nebraska Med. Sch, Omaha, Nebraska
Steve Radabough	Germantown, MD
Junvao Li, M.D	Beijing Medical School, China
Robert Barnett, M.D.	Surgical Oncology, Rockville, MD
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky	Former Member of Congress, Narberth, Pennsylvania
Charles Rodgers, Ph.D	National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
Nancy Prime	Iowa

 

Trustees Advisory Board

Name, Title	Name, Title	Name, Title	Name, Title
Joseph Charyk	Colleen Nunn	Eiyind Bjerke	Shelley Mulitz
C. Boyden Gray	Denise O’ Neil	Buffy Cafritz	Pamela Ohrstrom
Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D.	David Smith	Jean Wallace Douglas	Chuck Stone
Margo Hauer	Deborah Szekely	Ann Jordan	Faith Waters
Alyne Massey	Robert K. Zelle	Cynthia Helms	Gerry Ohrstrom

 

Friends of ICARE

Susan Saint James, Eric Johanson, Craig Nalen, Christopher Rodgers, and Sen. Fred D. Thompson

 

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