Tacha Foundation Tamoxifen Program 2023

Tacha Foundation

Tamoxifen Donation

Treatable Disease

Four Party Agreement

The Tacha Foundation and the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation have partnered with the Asia Breast Cancer Center and the Philippine Red Cross to provide donated Tamoxifen, the drug of choice for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer and sealed the partnership under the terms of a four-party formal agreement.

Thousands of Filipino women die every year from breast cancer, a disease that is highly treatable and curable. Breast cancer claimed the lives of so many Filipino women in 2014, that the Philippine government declared it an epidemic. In the Philippines, more women are burdened with breast cancer than any other country in Asia and in the world.

Philippine Breast Cancer

Overview

The Tacha Foundation and the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation have partnered with Ambassador Cuisia and his Foundation, the philanthropic and Non-Profit arm of the Asia Breast Cancer Center and with Senator Gordon, CEO of the Philippine Red Cross to provide donated Tamoxifen, the drug of choice for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. The Tacha Foundation donations of Tamoxifen are targeted for the treatment of poor and marginalized Filipino women suffering from Breast Cancer who cannot afford to pay for cancer drugs and, consequently, will likely die. If she is a widow, her surviving children risk becoming orphans or worse, abused children.

The Tacha Foundation has no tolerance for those guilty of Abuse of Women and Children, Mass Shootings of Innocent Children and Civilians, Crimes of Hate, Crimes of War and Genocide

In the Philippines, there are more women with breast cancer than any other country in Asia. The main reasons are

Filipino women have thick or dense breast and testing by mammograms often fail to detect early signs of breast cancer.

Filipino women tend to have children in their 30s. Women who have children in their 20s and breast feed their children, this helps to prevents breast cancer.

The Philippine Red Cross, the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation, the Tacha Foundation and the Asia Breast Cancer Center will jointly dedicate our efforts to assure that these women are not forgotten and that they will receive every day a Tacha Foundation donated treatment of Tamoxifen 20 mg for a continuous period of 12 months as recommend by the Philippine Ministry of Health, the Asia Breast Cancer Center and the US Cancer Society.

The Asia Breast Cancer Center, the ABC Center, the most advanced breast cancer center in all of Asia, is in Makati the thriving suburb of Manila. This multi-million-dollar facility was fully funded up front by philanthropic Filipino millionaires from the Philippines. The Asia Breast Cancer Center launched its formal opening on Oin the lobby of the Centuria Medical Makati.

Targeted

Treatment for poor and marginalized

ABC CENTER Most Advanced in Asia

The Asia Breast Cancer Center is located on the upper floors of the Centuria Medical Makati in Century City. The ABC Center is manned by a team of US trained Filipino physicians led by Dr. San Agustin who has 45 years of experience in medicine and surgery.

Centuria is the first outpatient IT building in the Philippines that offers topnotch outpatient medical care through advanced healthcare facilities and services. With the turnover of clinic spaces now ongoing, the medical arts center will be home to more than 500 doctors, clinics and a wide range of health support facilities including a day surgery center, recovery suites, radiology center, and diagnostic laboratory.

The center offers modern facilities and excellent services – from preventive care to early detection and treatment – that include early screening tests, radiation therapy, breast and cosmetology services, counseling, patient education, and close post-operative follow up supportive services. It also provides complementary medical services including a free-standing ambulatory center, nutritional counseling and emotional and psychological support.

Full 12 Month Treatment

Breaking Cycle of Fear

Doctor Norman San Augustin, one of the Foundering Partners and the first Executive Director of the Asia Breast Cancer Center, returns to the Philippines after an outstanding 45 year professional career and practice dedicated to breast cancer in the United States. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the founder and president of Morrison surgical associates at the Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. Doctor San Augustin was immediate past chairman of the Comprehensive Cancer Care Program and the Breast Cancer Program at Saint Clare’s Hospital, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center affiliate satellite in New Jersey.

The Asia Breast Center is the first freestanding For Profit-For-Charity ambulatory comprehensive cancer care center in the Philippines affiliated with a Major Cancer Institution in the United States dedicated solely to the management of breast diseases.

Doctor San Augustin strongly believes that “We have to break the cycle of fear about breast cancer with awareness, correct information and the appropriate treatment. Most recent statistics show that survival rate for very early detected breast cancer is 99%”

key is Sustainability

The Asia Breast Cancer, the ABC Center, located in Makati, is the most advanced breast cancer center in all of Asia.

• The multimillion-dollar facility was fully funded up front by philanthropic Filipino millioaires from the Philippines.

• The ABC Center is in Makati, the thriving suburb of Manila which is home to the World Bank’s Asia Development Bank, major International and Philippine Banks, Corporate Headquarters, International and Philippine Foundations, Embassies and Consulates, luxury hotels and shopping malls, secure gated communities housing diplomats, executives, and their families. Women from Makati coming to the ABC Center for treatment of breast cancer will pay full fare as they will be covered by private, corporate international and/or World Bank, UN, Diplomatic, Foundation and NGO comprehensive insurance.

The new breast cancer center is a sustainable philanthropic model that will benefit all groups of patients.

• This model reflects the growing trend in entrepreneurial philanthropy where for-profit entities spinoff revenue to support dedicated and committed local and international NGOs operating nonprofit private and faith-based hospitals and clinics located in low income urban and rural areas, plus hospitals and clinics located in slum and neglected areas.

• The members of the World Bank’s Asia Development Bank, major International and Philippine Banks, Corporate Headquarters, International and Philippine Foundations, Embassies and Consulates, luxury hotels, secure gated communities housing diplomats, executives, and their families, will pay full fair for exams, blood and diagnostic workups, therapeutic treatment, therapy, surgery and post-surgery care and follow-ups.

• After a full day visit by delegations from the embassies of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States, plus representatives of the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Asian Development Bank, the consensus was that the Asia Breast Cancer Center was equal to or better than some of the leading hospitals in their home countries. They concluded that the first choice would be to use the Asia Breast Cancer Center rather than spending substantial funds, loss of time and separation from family to send their people back to their home countries. THUS, MEETING THE GOAL OF SUSTAINABILITY.

GENIUS Of Simplicity

The Tacha Foundation donations of Tamoxifen are targeted for the treatment of poor and marginalized Filipino women suffering from Breast Cancer who cannot afford to pay for cancer drugs and, consequently, will likely die. If she is a widow, her surviving children risk becoming orphans or worse, abused children.

Under the Genius of Simplicity modus operandi, on the initial visit to the hospital or clinic the woman is examined, provided counseling and guidance, and given a bottle of Tamoxifen 20 mg with 90 tabs per bottle and told to take every morning one tab of Tamoxifen in the safety of her home. 90 tabs is a three-month supply. At the end of the three-month, she returns to the clinic where she is examined, encouraged about her progress, and given a bottle of Tamoxifen 20 mg with 90 tabs per bottle. The Tamoxifen is manufactured under a contract manufacturing arrangement with a private Tacha Foundation label to assure that it is made to the highest USP and GMP standards.

Thus, in the first year she makes four quarterly visits. During the fourth visit, she is given a full examination including a mammogram. If it is determined by the examining doctor, that she should continue in the program for another year, The Tacha Foundation automatically approves and donates a full one-year supply of Tamoxifen 20 mg.

We carried a similar program out thirteen years ago in the Philippine Island of Sulu, Mindanao, where the Abu Sayyaf and Al Qaeda terrorists tried to establish the first Islamic State in Southeast Asia. The Genius of Simplicity model worked in these terrorist occupied areas where women walking alone risked being kidnapped, raped and abused. During the four times of the year women had to go to the hospital or clinic they were accompanied and protected by family members and armed guards.

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The Abu Sayyaf and Al Qaeda terrorists again attempted to establish the first Islamic State in Southeast Asia and, to that end, conquered and occupied Marawi the most Islamic region of Mindanao, During the last four months of 2021 the Philippine armed forces was engaged to libertate Marawi, a city with over 90% Islamic residents, and liberate the region around Marawi.

Once back in control of Marawi, the Philippine government with aid from several governments took more than a year to remove thousands of tons of undetonated bombs and live armaments. The process of rehabilitation and reconstruction is underway, and the Tacha Foundation remains prepared to partner with the Philippines Red Cross and to provide Tacha Foundation donations of Tamoxifen 20 mg targeted for the treatment of poor and marginalized Filipino women suffering from Breast Cancer who cannot afford to pay for cancer drugs and, consequently, will likely die. If she is a widow, her surviving children risk becoming orphans or worse, abused children.

The Philippine Red Cross, Caritas Philippines, Faith Based Hospitals and clinics, Rotary Philippines (the largest Rotary in Asia), and their respective medical teams assure the Key Component of SUSTAINABILITY and the Tacha Foundation will provide the donations of Tamoxifen 20 mg, Under the Genius of Simplicity Programs.