The Cancer Prevention Foundation () is a Russian non-profit organization engaged in the popularization of primary prevention of malignant tumors and the introduction of a population screening system, new methods for diagnosing cancer, medical education and awareness raising programs.
History
The Cancer Prevention Foundation was established in 2010. Ilya Fomintsev, an oncology surgeon, graduate of the medical faculty of Mordovian State University (2002) and the Department of Oncology of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (2004), became the co-founder and executive director of the fund. During his years at the Leningrad Regional Oncology Dispensary (2004-2007), his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Fomintsev was directly involved in her treatment. After her death, Fomintsev resigned from the dispensary and focused on popularizing mass cancer prevention and early diagnostic methods. In 2008, together with a group of like-minded people, Fomintsev organized free preventive examinations of mammologists on the basis of the clinic where he worked, attracted sponsors to pay for the work of specialists and placed advertisements in newspapers. Later, the club 'I live not in vain' and the CPF itself were established.
Projects
Centers for early detection of breast cancer
The first projects of the CPF were the Centers for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer, the first of which was opened in autumn of 2011 on the basis of the city polyclinic No. 31 in St. Petersburg at the First St. Petersburg State Medical University, and the second one - a year later on the basis of the Oncological dispensary of the Moscow district on Novoizmaylovsky prospect. Endoscopy rooms were organized there, and free consultations and research were conducted. Over the course of its work, the Centers for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer saw more than 50,000 people and identified more than 422 suspicions of breast cancer, but in 2016, due to lack of ongoing funding, the CPF decided to close them and focus on a program for assessing individual cancer risks.
Pink ribbon in your city
Since 2013, the CPF together with Avon company with the support of the Scientific Research Institute of Oncology named after N.N. Petrov, every year have been carrying out an action for the early detection of breast cancer — 'Pink ribbon in your city'. Free check-up sites open for a few days in the regional centers within the framework of the action. Also there are round tables and master classes for doctors, lectures for medical students and additional patient counseling. In 2013, the action was held in Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Krasnoyarsk and Yekaterinburg, about 6,000 women were examined, 90 were sent for follow-up and treatment with suspicion of the presence of malignant tumors. In 2014, Tver and Surgut took part in the action. In 2015, the shares were held in Syktyvkar, Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk and Vladivostok, nearly 10,000 women were examined, more than 200 received referrals for an additional examination. In 2016, the action was held in Stavropol, Volgograd, Ufa, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Novosibirsk, Tambov and Yaroslavl; it was planned to examine about 14 thousand people. During the surveys and consultations, the CPF found that the majority of women in the regions of Russia know about the need for preventive examinations, but more than half of Russians have never undergone preventive examinations and consulted mammologists only after having the symptoms.
Know in Order to Live
In May–June 2014, the CPF together with the Research Institute of Oncology named after N.N.Petrov and the Association of Oncologists of the North-West Federal District, launched a joint project 'Know in Order to Live'. Within the framework of the project the offices early detection of cancer were organized in the Institute of Oncology, they worked in an extended format. The specialists attended the II Baltic International Oncology Forum 'Prevention and cancer screening', seminars and master classes for primary care physicians, an international congress of oncomammologists 'White Nights', an international forum 'Innovations in oncogynecology' and a round table, prepared jointly with the St. Petersburg Health Committee.