CEO, Dr. Michael Whitehouse, monitoring TCBRF medical donations at Emma Romero Hospital in Honduras.

Breast cancer continues to be the most common type of cancer among women worldwide, with more than 1.3 million women receiving a breast cancer diagnosis each year and over 500,000 losing their life to this dreaded disease.

While The Breast Cancer Relief Foundation most certainly works locally within the United States, we are very active globally as well, particularly in the developing world, where breast cancer incidence and deaths continue to increase at an alarming rate. Through our Global Medical Assistance Program, we are working to reverse this trend by providing requisite treatment options and access to pharmaceuticals and medical goods that breast cancer patients require.

In the past five years, TBCRF has provided well over thirty thousand months of required pharmaceutical therapies to women with breast cancer in countries like: the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and the Philippines. Our program consists of traditional chemotherapy and essential medicines, including mental health medicines, all of which are donated to us and which we then provide free of charge to poor patients in the developing world. We have provided millions of dollars worth of medicines free of charge to individual patients. Our goal is for patients and their physicians to have the tools to fight and win their battle with breast cancer – no matter where they live.

The Breast Cancer Relief Foundation follows all World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and AERDO (ACCORD) standards in executing its overseas humanitarian programs. We take measures to ensure that all medical donations have been requested and can be utilized by the overseas public hospitals that we support in benefit of their underserved patients. TBCRF does not accept nor will it donate overseas any medical products that could expire before they can be utilized by intended overseas recipients.

We have relationships and agreements to ensure that all of our donations are provided duty and tax free to the intended overseas countries and that the benefiting needy patients are provided the medicines without charge.