The Eye Cancer Foundation

• Fund and direct research to find cures for patients with ocular tumors and related eye diseases.
• Provide the most up-to-date treatment information available to patients and their families, physicians, and other health-care providers.
• To coordinate national and international prospective-randomized clinical trials to evaluate new methods of diagnosis and treatment.
• Establish family and patient support programs to ease emotional stress and real-life adjustment issues related to the severe forms of these conditions.
• To empower patients to find the resources to improve their lives.
• Support eye cancer fellowship education with an emphasis on underserved or unserved countries.
• Support multi center, international cooperative eye cancer registries to determine the best methods of diagnosis and treatment for eye cancers.
• The Bioinformatics Grid (BIG): The mission of the eye cancer bioinformatics grid is to provide an infrastructure for sharing data, results and research. Dr. Finger says, “There is power in numbers!”
• International Retinoblastoma Fellowships: The Eye Cancer Foundation (ECF) is pleased to announce funding to support retinoblastoma education fellowships for candidates from unserved and underserved countries. These fellowships may be from the ECF, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, and/or the International Council of Ophthalmology.
• Eye Cancer Working Day: The Working Day unites specialists around the globe to develop multicenter, international collaboration in ocular oncology.

1) We support and update the most widely used web presence for patients with eye cancer and the professionals who care for them.

2) We support multi center, international cooperative studies that allow for statistically significant amounts of data to be collected for analysis.

3) We are trying to decrease the mortality of children with eye cancer in under-developed countries.

4) We are raising awareness of eye cancer.

5) We fundraise for a cure, better treatment, more widespread treatment, research, and training for eye cancer.

We have support groups.

We have a web site that distributes new, information an allows patients to find each other.

We have a presence on Facebook, one for doctors, and another for patients.

We have many of the top eye cancer specialists around the world participating in our programs, working together to teach new eye cancer specialists, research eye cancer, and raise eye cancer awareness.

We have made significant headway with raising awareness, building a forum for eye cancer patients and survivors to discuss their situation and present their thoughts and worries to their peers.

We have surpassed the goal of our 2020 Campaign, that wanted to see the completion of training of 20 eye cancer specialists in 20 different unserved and underserved countries around the world. In fact, not only have we surpassed our goal, but we have doubled it - having trained nearly 50 specialists from nearly 30 different countries.

Our goals continue to involve finding a cure for even the most difficult diseases, which may some day be applied to other types of cancers. Additionally, we hope to expand our reach to even more countries and harder to reach continents, such as Africa, South and Central America, and Australia.

In 2022, we built upon our International Retinoblastoma Certification Course (IRBCC) which allowed us to work while covid was still present.