Collaborations · Community Partner
Bringing the Future Closer
The Cancer Research Collaboration is a nonprofit established for a single purpose: to support combined efforts to find a cure for and eliminate cancer. RadNet supports the Collaboration in its pursuit of novel and advanced scientific advancements that may introduce new treatment options for patients.
A future free of cancer
The Collaboration was founded on a simple conviction: innovative strategies and improved partnership among health care stakeholders offers the best chance for a future free of cancer.
Research is too often performed in isolated silos, and promising treatments can go unheard of beyond small groups of researchers, patients and clinicians. A more collaborative model for conducting research and sharing results improves the chances of finding a cure and developing more effective treatments.
Its work centers on two goals.
Fund innovative research
Identify novel projects and programs and provide kick-start and/or gap funding.Promote collaboration
Promote strategies, cooperation and collaboration among research partners to foster innovationTrials, closer to patients
RadNet supports the Collaboration in its pursuit of novel and advanced scientific advancements that may introduce new treatment options for patients.
Through the partnership, the Collaboration provides patients access to major treatment trials, so that options are not restricted to those who live in certain pockets of the country where trials are conducted at large academic centers. With its community partners, it identifies trial opportunities for treatments of many tumor types and recruits patients for ongoing trials.
Its research spans four areas.
- Breast Cancer
- Imaging
- Other Cancers
- Molecular & Genetics
Two initiatives
Two areas where the Collaboration can most effectively apply its strengths. Imaging is where RadNet comes in.
Cancer Therapies
Targeted therapies act on specific features of cancer cells; their benefits and side effects vary by treatment. The Collaboration raises funds for community research projects that give patients access to new therapies and technologies while collecting data for researchers.
Advanced Imaging
Through its partnership with RadNet, the Collaboration connects investigators with the quality imaging their clinical trials require, for research into diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s.
Support the research
Learn more, donate, or join the Collaboration’s annual September golf tournament at Mission Viejo Country Club.