One of the nation’s most important organizations dedicated to understanding who gets cancer, why, how to detect and treat it, and how to improve the quality of life of individuals living with cancer.

The Northern California Cancer Center is one of the national leaders in epidemiological studies of cancer. Founded thanks in part to President Nixon’s “war on cancer” in 1971, NCCC collaborates with the Stanford Cancer Center and the Breast Cancer Family Registry to provide the best research and treatment available today.

The center is renowned for its demographic-based studies, one of which demonstrated a higher incidence of colorectal cancer among certain Asian populations. Another prominent study identified and analyzed an abnormal incidence of breast cancer among women in Marin County, California.

Studies like these can and have led to the identification of certain risk factors, genetic and/or environmental, and they’ve contributed towards kick starting understanding and the development of treatment. A worthy cause.