40 years? I'm getting old...

Topping the billion-dollar mark last year was a PMC milestone for the ages. Marking my 40th PMC may not rise to “one for the ages”, but it is for me personally.

After 4 decades, I’d have hoped that instances of cancer would diminish. But, between early detection and being “of a certain age”, cancer seems more prevalent than ever. Amongst too many examples in the past year are a long-time friend/neighbor losing his wife to appendix cancer and my brother Jamie being diagnosed with parotid gland cancer (for which treatment has truly miserable side effects). Under Dana-Farber’s care, Jamie’s cancer is well under control as he recovers from the brutal treatment. As I wrote this, I was scheduling a prostate MRI.

For the past several years we have supported the groundbreaking work of Dr. Cigall Kadoch’s lab at Dana-Farber. At last year’s PMC, Cigall told the story of our first visit to her lab in June of 2018. She and her team had JUST confirmed a key finding and as she walked to meet me and a few PMC teammates, removing her lab coat and gloves, she wondered how she’d fund pursuit of this new breakthrough. Call it karma, timing, good luck … but our PMC team donated $400K to Kadoch Lab that year. And, there have been many more discoveries since.

Today, with public research funding being severely reduced the PMC and your contributions play an even more outsized role in the fight against cancer. So, I humbly ask for your support once again for my 2025 PMC effort. You can donate in the following ways:

THANK YOU for your continued support!!

With gratitude and appreciation,

Chris