At The Max Foundation, we have declared 2016 as the year we ‘leap forward for impact’. With that in mind, our first milestone is the launch of our brand new website. Redesigning our website has been both a strategic and soul-searching exercise that we have done all for you. We see our website as a platform for you to engage with us as partners in our mission.
We can’t wait for you to see the website for yourself: Explore Our New Website.
These new features were designed especially for you…
This is your website, just as much as it is ours. It is for your friends and ours, all of whom are touched by cancer. The Max Foundation’s website will be growing, evolving and getting stronger all the time. We hope you will bookmark the site so you can visit often. Enjoy your website tour!
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All of us at The Max Foundation
The Max Foundation is a leading global health nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating health equity. For 28 years, Max has pioneered practical, scalable, high-quality solutions to bring life-extending treatments and patient-centered health care to more than 100,000 people living with cancer and critical illness in low- and middle-income countries. Max believes in a world where all people can access high-impact medicines, where geography is not destiny, and where everyone can strive for health with dignity and with hope.
For the 20th anniversary of World Cancer Day, we asked our global team members, physicians, patients, caregivers, and advocates to share what progress in cancer care means to them. Progress means all cancer patients get the treatment they deserve.[/e World Cancer Day, celebrated on February 4, is a global initiative that aims to raise awareness….
In Guatemala, there are 14,200 new cases of cancer a year and from this amount 9,100 people die of cancer or 64.7%. Most of these diagnoses could have been prevented or better treated if diagnosed early. In Guatemala only the persons who have access to the national social security plan have free services and treatment, but poor quality and lack of medications or in most occasions. People who do not have social security have to pay for health services and for medications. As per statistics taken from Globocan 2008, the most common cancers in Guatemala are prostate, cervix, stomach, breast and lung cancers.
I have learned that the pain in the heart and soul is deep and will always be there. The ‘bucket’ has a hole, and even when you dedicate every day of your life to making sure other families don’t have to live with this pain, the bucket will never be filled. I have also learned….
