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UCCC Receives Grant from Lance Armstrong Foundation
AURORA, Colo. (Aug. 19, 2005) — The University of Colorado Cancer Center (UCCC) today announced that it received a community program grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) to support the Community REGAIN Project. UCCC and 30 other community, non-profit organizations across the country received LAF grants to help people with the physical, emotional and practical challenges of cancer.
The LAF community program provides financial assistance and practical advice for community-centered cancer survivorship initiatives like the Community REGAIN project. Through the project, UCCC will support people living with cancer by recruiting long-term cancer survivors (at least a year) and ethnic minority cancer patients and survivors for participation in an exercise and nutrition program specifically tailored to cancer survivors. The objective of the program is to improve the quality of life for cancer survivors through preventive services, education and support, with an emphasis on people of color and other underserved populations.
"The LAF community program grant plays a vital part in the furthering of the UCCC's mission," said Betsy Risendal, PhD, principal investigator of the grant. "We are honored and excited to be among such an extraordinary group of recipients who all share a passion for helping people with cancer live strong."
Through the LAF grant, outreach workers will recruit cancer survivors to participate in the Summit exercise program, an existing exercise program for cancer patients and survivors that is offered at eight recreation centers throughout the Denver metropolitan area. Survivors recruited through the REGAIN Project will participate in the program at no cost to them.
"We are pleased to support the UCCC in its efforts to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors and their loved ones," said Andy Miller, associate director of public health at the LAF. "Together, we are helping people with cancer live strong."
The University of Colorado Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the Rocky Mountain Region. Headquartered primarily at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, its four-part mission is excellence in cancer research, treatment, prevention and education. For more information, visit the Web site at www.uccc.info.