The Dorcas Cancer Foundation

Impact,
Since its inception in September 2015, The Dorcas Cancer Foundation has:
● Funded diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation for over 60 children diagnosed with cancer in Nigeria. We have survivors who are now cancer-free and moving forward with their education.
● Launched the first grant in Nigeria solely dedicated to childhood cancer research, The Dorcas Cancer Research Grant. The program has since awarded 3 (three) research grantees.
● Trained over 2,500 Community and Primary Health Care Workers in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States through the Look Again Program, using ‘The 5 Signs & 5 Questions Method TM’, a tool developed in line with the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer Cure-all framework and patented by the foundation to increase early cancer detection by at least 50%. This program is done in partnership with The Federal Ministry of Health, Oyo State Ministry of Health, Ogun State Primary Healthcare Board, Lagos State Nursing Service, Lagos State Primary Healthcare Board and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
● Provided Pediatric Radiation Oncology training to over 600 (six hundred) professionals, hailing from Nigeria, various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, and across the globe in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Health, International Paediatric Radiation Oncology Society (PROS - intpros.org), Association of Radiation Oncology of Nigeria (ARCON) and the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center.
● Launched the first Childhood Cancer Patient Education Handbooks in Nigeria, in partnership with the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Over 1,500 (one thousand, five hundred) copies of the handbooks and 3,000 (three thousand) copies of pamphlets have been distributed to patients, medical professionals, and oncology departments of seven teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
● Supported the formation and running of the first Pediatric Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT)/Tumor Board seated at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Federal Medical Center, (FMC Abeokuta. Ogun state) Nigeria.
● Supported the establishment and operation of the first population-based pediatric cancer registry in Nigeria, initiated in 2023 and located at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
● Launched the Hands of Gold, the first childhood cancer support group in Nigeria has held twelve (12) Support group meetings with over 60 families and children ‎with cancer
● Donated medical equipment to the pediatric cancer wards of two teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
● Donated over 75 consumables boxes to children admitted to the pediatric cancer wards of teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
● Regular community and media awareness drives reaching an audience of over 2 million people through both local and international print; audiovisual (TV and Radio), and social media.