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Allen Foundation for Medical Research, W.M.

Keck Foundation and Donald Listwin donate $4.4 million to start program SEATTLE — Jun.

11, 2003 — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has launched a major new program to develop tests that could alert doctors to the earliest signs of cancer.

Known as the Early Detection Initiative, the effort will benefit from $4.4 million in new funding from The Paul G.

Allen Foundation for Medical Research of Seattle, the W.M.

Keck Foundation of Los Angeles and businessman Donald J.

Listwin of Woodside, Calif.

The Paul G.

Allen Foundation for Medical Research is contributing $2 million toward the initiative, the W.M.

Keck Foundation is contributing $1.4 million, and Donald Listwin is contributing $1 million.

Additionally, the center will invest another $3.3 million to launch the program.

The goal of Fred Hutchinson's Early Detection Initiative, headed by its president and director, Nobel laureate Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., is the early identification of the onset and risk of a wide range of cancers and other diseases so they can be prevented or treated as soon as possible.

"The importance of this work is underscored by the fact that survival rates improve dramatically when cancers are diagnosed early, when the disea...

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