A foundation for early detection and prevention, built on a simple belief: women deserve to be seen before the symptoms begin.
Eva Gunilla Tucci, for whom this work is named.
Symptoms are not screening.
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States, yet unlike the Pap smear, there is still no routine early-detection paradigm. Too often, women are taught to wait for a warning sign. We are working to change that expectation.
Eva & her husband, by the sea
In 1996, Eva was diagnosed with advanced endometrial cancer. Six months later, she was gone. When a woman is lost too soon, a daughter loses her mother, sons lose their center, a husband loses his partner, a whole family loses its sun.
The Eva Tucci Foundation was built from that loss, and from a conviction that earlier answers should not be a matter of luck.
Read the full storyWe focus upstream, on education and awareness that help women expect earlier evaluation, instead of being taught to wait until something is already wrong.
Cancer begins in a woman's body, but it changes daughters, sons, husbands, and fathers. We invite the people who love her into the conversation, including men and boys.
We are not a single campaign or a single device. We are helping build the educational and behavioral infrastructure that makes early detection routine, understood, and expected.
Endometrial cancer is medically urgent and philanthropically under-served. That makes this the moment to make a visible, lasting difference, at the very beginning of a movement.