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Better Than Ever is an Arizona Cancer Center fitness training and fundraising program. We are pleased that the $210,000 distributed this year brings the 9 year grant distribution total to more than $1.5 million. Learn more about the 2009-2010 grant award winners.

The late Fenton L. Maynard of Phoenix committed a $5 million gift from his estate to the Arizona Cancer Center to create the Margaret E. and Fenton L. Maynard Excellence in Breast Cancer Research Endowment. This is the largest gift for research activities made to the Cancer Center in its 33-year history.

Nineteen Arizona Cancer Center members have been awarded a total of $4 million in federal National Institutes of Health stimulus grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The Arizona Cancer Center congratulates three of its researcher/members and a community advisory board member on being selected as winners of the Tucson-area 40 Under 40 awards, which honor young community leaders.

Setsuko K. Chambers, MD, director of Women’s Cancers at the Arizona Cancer Center has been elected a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

The Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NACP) has been awarded a $15.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue developing sustainable solutions to cancer disparities among Native Americans.

Alfred M. Cohen, MD, has been named surgical director at the Arizona Cancer Center and will guide the Department of Surgery oncologists.

Mark D. Gilbert, MD, has been named director of clinical professional development at the Arizona Cancer Center.