The document discusses the Female Cancer Foundation and its efforts to eliminate cervical cancer worldwide. It notes that cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women globally, with over 500,000 new cases diagnosed each year, primarily in developing countries. The Foundation aims to increase awareness, provide screening and treatment, and train local healthcare workers in developing countries using low-cost methods. Its goal is to work with partners and volunteers towards a world without cervical cancer.

1. Female Cancer Foundation
Towards a world without cervical cancer

2. “Every two minutes,
somewhere in the world a
woman dies because of
cervical cancer. A mom, a
sister, a friend.”

4. “Cervical cancer is the second most
preventive kind of feminine cancer,
after breast cancer.
Every year 500.000 women
worldwide are diagnosed with
cervical cancer.
More than 85% of these women live
in developing countries.”

6. “Cervical cancer is a poorness
related illness, and hence the
main cause of death for
women in developing
countries.”

8. “Most of these women play
a crucial role in their
family, community and
local economy.”

11. “In opposite to most kinds of
cancer, cervical cancer can be
prevented and easily treated.
With a simple and cheap
method.”

13. “Female Cancer Foundation
supports the struggle to survive
cervical cancer in developing
countries. By awareness, screening
and treatment, and also by training
and research.”

14. Female Cancer Foundation
has it’s origins in the Leids
Universitair Medisch
Centrum (LUMC). Prof.
gynecologist Peters founded
the Female Cancer
Foundation here in the early
eighties, coming from a
collaboration between
Gynecology, Immuno
Haematology, Pathology and
Epidemiology.

16. “On the basis of the See
& Treat method: Easy,
cheap and simply
transmisseble.”

17. Screening
with table
vinegar

18. Treatment : by congelation,
same technique as used for
warts (Cryotherapie)

19. Knowledge transmission:
Train-the-trainer

20. Awareness

21. We do this in
the most poor
regio’s of
Indonesia

22. In Africa with the Save my Mother-Project, in
collaboration with SOS Kinderdorpen

23. In the flooded areas of North
Bangladesh

24. On the floating hospitals of collaborating
organization Friendship

25. In the south of Bangladesh, in collaboration
with local organization SLOPB

26. Necessity is the mother of invention
• All costs are limited to the
minimum
• Founder Prof. Lex Peters and only
one payed program-manager
Carlien Marree and the effort of
volunteers and partners
• Helped by ambassadresses
Jennifer Hoffman and Eva Jinek
• Collaborations are lifechanging
important!

27. Female Cancer Foundation hopes to
work in the direction of a world without
cervical cancer, together with you!
The hand that
rocks the cradle,
rules the world
- Wallace (1865)

28. Annex

29. Mission
“Female Cancer Foundation provides a visible contribution
towards a world without cervical cancer, trough
awareness, prevention, treatment, training, education and
research. We focus on the poorest and most
disadvantaged, in areas where cerviccarcinoom is a real
big problem”
Vision
“Female Cancer Foundation aims towards a world without
cervical cancer”
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30. Projects: 2013-2014
• Starting: Bangladesh Friendship, Bangladesh
SLOPB, Lombok fase 2
• Preserving already started projects in 2014: Save
my Mother project together with SOS in Kenya,
Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, The Gambia
• Expanding already started projects,
including e-learning in Kenya and Ghana
• Exploring: Ethiopia, Nepal, Africa (remaining),
Roemenia
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31. Fundraising &
Visability
Events:
•FAB. by Jennifer
•Style 4 Life
•VanVoorDoorVrouwen
•Bookpresentation Queen Máxima
•Protest - shoot
•FCF film
•New Ambassadress: Eva Jinek
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32. Comitee of trust:
•Ferry Breedveld
Professor Rheumatology and chairman of board of
directors at Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum
•Carel Stolker
Rector Magnificus and chairman of the executive
board at Universiteit Leiden
•Freek de Jonge
Dutch comedian
•Maya Meijer-Bergmans
Owner Westergasfabriek b.v. and chairwoman
guesthouses foundation VU Medisch Centrum
•Alexander Rinnooy Kan
Professot Economy and Business University of
Amsterdam, top official
•Mirjam de Blécourt
Labourlawyer and member of the board at Baker &
McKenzie
•Maddy Smeets
Gynecologist in Hospital Bronovo, The Hague
•Adiati Arifin Siregar
Chairwoman of the Indonesian Traditional Textile
Society (Himpunan Wastraprema)
•Marion Bloem
Dutch writer and producer
•Volkert Doeksen
Chairman Alpinvest
•Hella de Jonge-Asser
Dutch artist
•Ani Yudhoyono
Wife of the president of Indonesia