A donor recently said, “ Supporting the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation gives me and my family the ability to support research and clinical trial work that crosses many, many diseases— from brain tumors, Parkinson’s and epilepsy to breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease and stroke. As we contemplated making this very large philanthropic commitment to the foundation, it wasn’t hard to imagine how different the lives of our family members might have been, if focused ultrasound had been available to them when they fought difficult diseases. While we cannot change the past, we can support a new venture philanthropy initiative that will certainly change the future. For us, that new venture is the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation.”
Other individuals have similarly positive comments about focused ultrasound, like the patient who had a grapefruit sized fibroid tumor recently treated as an outpatient, with no anesthesia. She walked away having no side effects and avoided having a hysterectomy and the associated 6 week recovery period. In Europe where bone metastases focused ultrasound treatment is already approved by their version of the FDA, a patient with bone cancer was treated to relieve the pain, which enabled her to travel and visit with family and friends for the last year of her life, rather than being bed-ridden with immeasurable suffering and a hazed, medicated view of the world around her. Your gift can help create more of these positive, life changing stories for people all over the country and around the globe.
Please do take time to consider how your contribution could support one or more research projects and how it would help us to greatly accelerate the development and use of Focused Ultrasound. Our goal is to accelerate the worldwide adoption cycle to a 5-10 year window, instead of the more typical, lengthy cycle of 10-25 years. When we fully succeed, focused ultrasound will be used around the globe in many, many locations to save millions of people from invasive surgery, radiation therapy and needless suffering. Already, there is research over 60 sites worldwide with 30 of those sites in the United States.
If you wish to designate your gift in honor of someone or in memory of someone, we would be pleased to send the gift acknowledgment to the individual or institution of your choice. If you want to discuss a planned gift, bequest or an outright gift of any magnitude, we would be honored to talk with you. Please contact, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information or call 434-326-9830.