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Cooks Tour 2008 - $60,000 was raised, with $50,000 as the final payment of the auxiliary’s commitment for a digital mammogram machine for the UAMS/Cancer Institute Breast Center that will make digital mammography available to all women. The other $10,000 will go to grants that support cancer patients in Arkansas. |
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Cooks Tour 2007 - Over $50,000 was raised to help pay for a digital mammogram machine for the UAMS/Cancer Institute Breast Center. |
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Cooks Tour 2006 - Over $50,000 was raised to help pay for a digital mammogram machine for the UAMS/Cancer Institute Breast Center. |
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Cooks Tour 2005 – Over $50,000 was raised. |
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Cooks Tour 2004 – Over $64,000 was raised. The funds were distributed in November 2004. |
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Cooks Tour 2000 through Cooks Tour 2003 - A total of $200,000 was raised to partially fund the UAMS Family Home and Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) Cancer Support Center, a “home away from home” offering support and activities for cancer patients and their families and friends. |
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Cooks Tour 1999 – $44,000 was raised to develop easy to read cancer education materials for the Women’s Oncology Clinic at ACRC. |
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Cooks Tour 1998 – $25,000 was raised to help fund the Charles William Rasco, III Endowed Symposium on Oncology. |
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Cooks Tour 1997 – $22,000 was raised to support research in the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of breast cancer. |
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Cooks Tour 1996 – $32,000 was raised and divided between helping with patient headphones for the aspheresis area and with a Hema-Tek Slide Stainer and Bone Marrow Filing System for the Hematology/Bone Marrow Clinical Laboratory. |
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Cooks Tour 1995 – $25,000 was raised to purchase inventory for a gift shop opened in conjunction with ACRC’s expansion. |
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Cooks Tour 1994 – $18,000 was raised to help support a national educational breast conference for physicians and begin a patient partners program for bone marrow transplant patients. |
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Cooks Tour 1993 – $5,000 was raised to underwrite an educational breast cancer conference and to open a gift cart as a service to patients, selling items such as turbans, for example, at no profit. |
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Cooks Tour 1991 – Not really a fund raising event, but rather a means of increasing awareness of the newly opened Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) within the community. Nevertheless $2,500 was used to purchase coffee and snacks, plants, and televisions for patient waiting areas. |
