Fox Chase Cancer Center Board of Associates Presents $744,000 Check to Executive Vice President

PHILADELPHIA (December 1, 2006) – Barbara B. Johnson, of Jenkintown, Pa., president of Fox Chase Cancer Center’s volunteer Board of Associates, presented a check for $744,000 to Donald Leedy, executive vice president of Fox Chase Cancer Center. The annual contribution represents the fundraising efforts for the past year by the Board of Associates and its seven member organizations. The money is designated for cancer research and patient care at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Board of Associates is a volunteer group with seven member organizations, representing hundreds of volunteers in the five-county Delaware Valley area and South Jersey who conduct fundraising and educational activities in support of the Center.

For information about volunteering, please call (215) 728-2441.

Fox Chase Cancer Center was founded in 1904 in Philadelphia as the nation’s first cancer hospital. In 1974, Fox Chase became one of the first institutions designated as a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center. Fox Chase conducts basic, clinical, population and translational research; programs of prevention, detection and treatment of cancer; and community outreach. For more information about Fox Chase activities, visit the Center’s web site at www.fccc.edu or call 1-888-FOX CHASE.