Press Release

Camp Carefree in Stokesdale, NC

NCC Provides Program Assists American Patients
U.S. Hemophilia Summer Camps Receive Donations of Factor Medicines

Date Published: July 21, 2010

The NCC Provides relief program is providing required Factor VIII and Factor IX therapies to a number of special summer camps in the United States for children with hemophilia. It is estimated that over 1,000 children will attend these camps, and this new initiative will help several hundred underserved hemophiliac patients. The goal of this program is to fulfill existing unmet needs.

The NCC Provides Program was established by the National Cancer Coalition to provide all types of humanitarian medical relief, as well as financial assistance awards through collaboration with respected partners around the United States. Our staff works closely with the administration, physicians, nurses, and/or social service representatives at each of these partner facilities, thus enabling qualified underserved patients to receive assistance through our program. To date, over $2 million in resources have been provided to needy Americans through the NCC Provides Program.  Besides the Hemophilia Camps Initiative, NCC Provides also supports target cancer patients at risk of not completing their treatments through its Cancer Relief Fund.

With the Cancer Relief Fund, we typically provide support through hospitals or hospices across the United States, assisting qualified patients with transportation or lodging expenses associated with treatments, meals or nutrition requirements, laboratory/diagnostic tests, direct donations of required prescription pharmaceuticals, and/or with insurance co-pays. When not met, these necessary expenses are often the leading factors in a patient not being able to fully comply with their cancer treatment regime, or they may be the cause of undesired side effects and a low quality of life.  Examples of this program in action have been donations of prescription medicines that were required to improve the quality of life for patients at U.S. hospices, or cash grants to patients that needed funds for transportation to and from their chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments.

NCC Provides focuses on serious diseases like cancer and hemophilia to ensure that these patients with life-threatening illness do not have any obstacles that prevent completion of their required treatments or lack of access to the medicines that they require to maintain their health. The program focuses on fulfilling unmet needs and improving the quality of life for patients that would otherwise not be able to receive help or complete their treatments without assistance. All assistance is based upon need and availability. This program has had real and lasting impact in the lives of the patients that it touches. 

NCC’s Senior Vice President, Tom Roane, stated, “NCC is pleased to provide vital Factor to hemophilia summer camps in communities all across the United States. We are committed to supporting improved healthcare in this country and feel that no child should ever be without the medicines that they require for survival.”

The National Cancer Coalition, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, supports relief and research programs throughout the world. The Coalition’s international medical relief program provides requested pharmaceuticals to medical facilities that treat underserved patients in over 50 developing countries around the world. The NCC Provides Program awards financial and product support for at-risk American patients, who would otherwise not be able to have full access. For additional information, please contact NCC at: 919-821-2182 or visit our website at: http://www.nationalcancercoalition.org.

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