Caring For A Cure

Overview

For Patients. For Families. For Research. For a Cure.

Caring For A Cure was founded in 2011 by the nurses of the Adult Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant program at Mass General with a goal to improve the journey of patients and families with cancer through research, resources, and awareness. Since we began, we have raised over $3,000,000!

The funds raised have been directed to things both big and small – from flying in a bone marrow donor from halfway around the world, to sending caregivers out to dinner, to impromptu celebrations of anniversaries and birthdays unexpectedly spent in the hospital, to making sure new leukemia patients have real tissues.

Our Mission

Our goal to ease the journey and uplift the spirits of our patients and their families through support, connections and research.

• For Patients - At the core of our mission is our patients. We continuously seek opportunities both small and large to make their journey easier and uplift spirits.
• For Families - Families support our patients and are incredibly important to us. Recognizing that this is a journey for patients and those who walk beside them, we aim to support and recognize their integral role.
• For Research - Research leads to innovations that help our patients recover faster and moves us toward a cure. We are incredibly lucky to be based at Mass General, surrounded by an incredible research team both here and across the river.
• For a Cure - We'd love it if we could play even a small part in curing this disease. We'd happily move on to something else and fundraise for another worthy cause.

Research

Caring For A Cure is supporting the Mass General Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Survivorship program by providing funding to ensure adequate social work resources for the program. Social workers play a critical role in the Mass General Cancer Center BMT Survivorship program including:

• Conducting a comprehensive psychosocial assessment on transplant survivors
• Providing supportive counseling for transplant survivors with significant psychological distress
• Participating in studies of interventions to promote the physical and psychological well-being of caregivers (i.e. family and friends) of transplant survivors
• Leading educational workshops for patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease

News

Caring For A Cure: Passion is the Special Sauce
The founders of Caring For A Cure and Mass General’s Chief Nurse talk about the importance of going above and beyond for their patients. Read more here.

Scituate woman starts MGH charity with personal touch
Laura White, of Scituate, an oncology nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, along with colleagues Molly Higgins and Christine Weiand, founded Caring for a Cure, a unique organization benefitting MGH oncology patients and their families. Read more here.