Make a Gift to Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Inspired by their family, the Edwin and Linda Siegel Family Foundation has stepped forward with an additional match up to $100,000. That means, every gift made to Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center through this Matching Gift campaign will be tripled to advance cancer research, including a special emphasis on pancreatic cancer research being performed under the direction of Louis M. Weiner, M.D.

“Providing this match is important to us because our families have had to deal with far too much cancer. Our passion to support Georgetown Lombardi’s research and patient care is our strong desire to eliminate the devastation caused by cancer.”— Edwin and Linda Siegel Family Foundation

Your gift today will triple in impact to bring hope and healing to more patients who are facing cancer!

Your support is instrumental in funding lifesaving research that will lead to cures — like the groundbreaking work of Marcus Noel, M.D., who is currently involved in two clinical trials involving patients with a new diagnosis of pancreatic cancer that has advanced or spread. These studies examine the use of the chemotherapy drug regimen FOLFIRINOX in conjunction with the experimental drug eryaspase in hopes that the combination will prove safe and improve survival rates.

Another study is focusing on bringing immune therapies to earlier stage GI patients with gastroesophageal cancer that is localized. “I’m passionate about my research,” Dr. Noel says, “because the survival rate for many patients with GI cancer, especially that of the pancreas, is fairly poor. There’s such an urgent need to develop and discover better options for these patients and improve their outcomes.”

Learn more about Dr. Noel’s work and other critical research under way at the Ruesch Center.