Your support of the Duke City Marathon helps cancer patients in so many ways because of The New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation. We provide non-medical financial assistance so families are able to get through their treatment with a better quality of life, reduced stress, improved medical outcomes, and with less residual financial crisis. A cancer diagnosis can be as devastating to the family budget as to their health.
Assistance from the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation is often a patient’s last hope. A helping hand at just the right time gives them strength to keep fighting and helps provide a roof over their heads, transportation, or food on the table. Your participation will provide hope and help to hundreds of cancer patients and their families.
Here are but a few examples of the hundreds each year whose lives are touched by the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation. No one is immune–it reaches people from all walks of life. Please help us help others.
(Names have been changed to protect the patient’s privacy.)
- Chris is only 25 yrs old and is fighting brain cancer. He lives with his wife and their infant daughter. Because of his illness, he is unable to hold a job now. They have applied for disability while his wife works part-time and cares for him and their daughter. The NMCC Foundation has been able to help this family keep a roof over their heads and pay utilities and car insurance to keep them going until their disability kicks in to cover their basic expenses.
- Fred was recently diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 43. He had just been laid off from his construction job earlier this summer. His wife lost her job too–just prior to his diagnosis and they are living on unemployment and have no medical insurance. They have two children ages 5 and 10. We were able to help this family keep their home by paying their mortgage for a couple of months while they can secure some kind of jobs and medical coverage.
- Natasha is a single mother of two children ages 10 and 14 years of age. She is 46 yrs old and had a good job as an RN. Because of her bone marrow cancer she is too sick to work and support her family. She has used all her medical leave. The Foundation has been able to make her car payments so she can keep her transportation to treatment. They were also able to help with rental for her mobile home so she and the children maintain a stable and safe home.
- John lives in a rural area of New Mexico and must drive several hours each way for his chemotherapy treatments. They are both on fixed incomes, elderly and unable to drive. The NMCC Foundation is able to assist this patient with transportation and groceries during their battle with cancer.
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