Western Skies Character & Racing Jacket Shop is proud to announce our Cancer Fundraiser Event.  The event will donate $2.00 from every jacket sold on our Jacket Shop site to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. Funds will be turned in with a list of customers (names only) who participated in this event.  Please feel free to also donate directly by following this link to the Foundation's Donation Page.

Research = Hope

• Huntsman Cancer Foundation’s (HCF) sole purpose is to fund research at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI)
• In the US, one person dies from cancer every minute of every day.
• One out of every three women and one out of every two men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes.
• Through research, HCI is moving toward a more complete understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of cancer.  We, as human beings, are not the same, nor are our tumors the same.  HCI’s goal is to use genetic information to personalize cancer risk assessment, treatment planning, and actual care.
• HCI’s goals are to:
• Assess individual risk
• Screen, detect, prevent
• Diagnose targeted therapies
• Minimize adverse effects
• HCI is a world leader in cancer genetics.  HCI has received international recognition for genetic research.  In 2007, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Dr. Mario Capecchi, a pioneer in gene-targeting whose mouse models of cancer allow us to make strides in our laboratories every day.  In 2007, the MacArthur Fellows Program, which celebrates extraordinarily creative individuals who inspire new heights in human achievement, was awarded to HCI scientist, Susan Mango, PhD.
• HCI has identified more cancer-causing genes than anyone else in the US including
• Colon cancer
• Breast cancer
• Ovarian cancer
• Melanoma
• Neurofibromatosis
• Thyroid, parathyroid cancers