Remedy Plan Founder and CEO, Greg Crimmins

Nearly 200 people have donated to our campaign. Some of these people we know personally, and some of them we don’t. We have never done any fundraising before, and it is a strange mixture of humbling and inspiring. There are people we have never met, believing in us and the power of our idea. There are people we know well, and some we have only met once or twice, who believe that we can do something amazing. We think about our supporters all the time. We notice every donation. We think about what inspired them to join this campaign, to take the leap of adding their hard earned money, and their voice, to try to make new cancer drugs.

When we tell people what we are doing, people tell us about how cancer has affected their lives. People tell us about the suffering and hardship that this disease has caused them and the ones they love. We have heard this from person after person, friend after friend, stranger after stranger. Cancer has touched everyone.

In many ways, cancer is a worldwide crisis hiding in plain sight. 600,000 people will die of cancer in 2015, in the United States alone. This number is so big that its hard for anyone to wrap their head around it. This disease hits every one of our lives, nearly every year. Cancer is a disease we all know, but the numbers are staggering and overwhelming, so much so that at times it can be numbing. This number of people dying from cancer shouldn’t just be “the way things are” — it shouldn’t be the status quo that we all just accept.

We started Remedy Plan because we want more than that. We want more of all the crazy, beautiful, sad, wonderful, amazing things that life has to offer, without so many of us being dragged down by cancer and toxic cancer treatments every year. This is the 21st century, and this is America – its time for some bold new ideas, some moon shots, and some giant leaps.

We want to live in a world where cancer is just a problem to be managed, not a life-altering or life-threatening event. We want to live in a world where parents aren’t taken from their children, and children aren’t taken from their parents, by a disease we all saw coming because its always been with us. So we are setting out to make that happen.

The stories we hear, from family, friends, and strangers, about loved ones suffering with cancer, these stories inspire us, anger us, and harden our resolve.

Join us at fund.remedyplan.com, and be part of a new story: a moonshot to cure cancer.