About the Foundation

The Foundation for Cancer Research Support (RakFond) is a non-profit organization whose main tasks include: financing research and development activities, development of new methods and tools for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, promoting the development and improvement of research and scientific activities of research institutions, scientific centers, oncological hospitals, and individual specialists in the field of oncology. The Foundation was founded in 2017 and operates on the territory of the Russian Federation.

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15 Feb

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Issues the 14th Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer

ASCO’s Clinical Cancer Advances 2019 highlights the most significant clinical research advances of the past year and identifies priority areas where research efforts should be focused to accelerate progress against cancer... more

30 Dec

MARIYA STEPANOVA: END OF THE YEAR SUMMARY

Grantee of the first joint RUSSCO-RakFond competition among young oncologists Mariya Stepanova shares her results and impressions of the 2018 research year as well as her future plans... more

29 Dec

ALEXEY RUMYANTSEV: END OF THE YEAR SUMMARY

Grantee of the first joint RUSSCO-RakFond competition among young oncologists Alexey Rumyantsev shares his results and impressions of the 2018 research year as well as his future plans... more

12 Dec

RAKFOND AND SciSTORLAB OPEN A JOINT COMPETITION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF ONCOIMUNOLOGY

NGO "Foundation for Support of Scientific Research in Oncology" (RakFond) and CyStorLab, LLC open a joint program to support research projects in the field of oncoimmunology... more

10 Dec

RAKFOND CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY

This December RakFond celebrates its first anniversary since official registration. During this time we have assembled an excellent team, became partners with the largest professional association - the Russian Society of Clinical Oncology - RUSSCO... more

28 Nov

RAKFOND AND SCISTORELAB SIGNED AN AGREEMENT TO JOINTLY SUPPORT PROSPECTIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ONCOLOGY

The non-profit organization Foundation for Cancer Research Support (RakFond) and SciStoreLab, LLC announce the start of a long-term partnership in support of oncology research in Russia... more

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28 Dec

2018 RESEARCH YEAR: ONCOLOGY NEWS

The area of oncology in 2018 was full of events and news, new studies results, some of them were practice-changing. Here we publish selected interesting news of this year... more

19 Dec

MOTIVATION AND ROLE OF CLINICAL TRIALS FOR AN ONCOLOGIST’S SUCCESSFUL CLINICAL PRACTICE

By Timur Mitin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, Medical Director of the Tuality/OHSU Cancer Center (Portland, USA). more

19 Oct

Cancer statistics: incidence and mortality

This September the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued the 2018 update of the GLOBOCAN – the online tool which contains data on incidence and mortality for 36 cancers in 185 countries... more

18 Sep

Annual Cancer Progress Report Issued by the American Association for Cancer Research

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has released its annual Cancer Progress Report, which describes how research improves survival and quality of life for people around the world... more

Interviews with experts

RakFond's experts talk in their short interviews about their choice to become an oncologist, which cancer research they could name as their favorite, and why cancer research support is important.

Interview with Timur Mitin

Interview with Timur Mitin, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University... Learn more about radiation oncology, the significance of the organ-conserving treatment... more

Interview with Nikolay Zhukov

Interview with Nikolay Zhukov, M.D., D.Sci., Professor, Head of Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, D. Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology (Moscow, Russia)... Learn how to define the boundary between an effective and an ineffective treatment methods... more

Interview with Hiltrud Brauch

Interview with Hiltrud Brauch, Ph.D., Professor, Deputy Director, Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology... Learn how molecular genetics research led to success in some cancer types diagnostics and disease management... more

Interview with Elena Artamonova

Interview with Elena Artamonova, DSci, Head of Department of Chemotherapy of N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center (Moscow, Russia)... Learn how long it takes to arrange for a revolution in oncology, what success could be achieved after many years of profound scientific research... more

Interview with Sergey Tjulandin

Interview with Sergey Tjulandin, MD, DSci, Professor, Deputy Director and Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy of N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center... Learn how advances in germinogenic tumors treatment let young people return to their lives, where scientific hypotheses come from... more

Interview with Evgeny Imyanitov

Interview with Evgeny Imyanitov, DSci, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences... Learn more about molecular biology, why it is important to study hereditary tumor syndromes... more

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