6 Million Facebook Members Support Cancer Prevention

The Campaign for Cancer Prevention is using Facebook's Causes application to direct individual donors to support eight new cancer research projects.

A six million member strong Facebook movement seeks to channel support and private funding directly to the latest cancer prevention research.

The Campaign for Cancer Prevention and its partner, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, leverage Facebook and Causes to raise private funding for cancer research and build the six million member network over the past five years.

This week, CCP announced eight new research projects at BWH that are aimed at early detection and cancer prevention.

Supporters can contribute money directly to the research project of their choice using the Facebook platform, among other methods.

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