Faith Fancher Research Award
Faith Fancher was a long-time television news anchor and personality with KTVU (Oakland) who waged a very public battle against breast cancer. She also was the founding member of the CBCRP Executive Team, which formed in 2001 to help raise the visibility and fundraising profi le of our program. Faith passed away in October 2003 after a six-year struggle with the disease.
In Faith's honor, and to commemorate all that she did for breast cancer education and research, we have created the annual Faith Fancher Research award, which will be presented to a researcher, institution, or community-based organization whose work refl ects those values that Faith held most closely and extends the work that Faith did for all women facing breast cancer.
The recipient of the inaugural Faith Fancher Research award is Annette Stanton, Ph.D., at the University of California, Los Angeles, for her project, “Living Well With Advanced Breast Cancer: A Predictive Model”. Dr. Stanton's study will investigate quality of life issues faced by women living with advanced stages of breast cancer and identify effective ways to improve their lives.
For a complete list of grants that we funded this year, visit our website at www.cbcrp.org or call us at 888 313-2277 (BCRP) and ask for our Cycle X Compendium of Awards.
