When he founded The Cure Alliance, Dr.Camillo Ricordi issued the following warning:
“In the next five years, you or someone you love may be diagnosed with an incurable disease. The outcome depends on what we do between now and then.”
—Dr. Camillo Ricordi
Founding President of The Cure Alliance
TODAY, SADLY, THIS MAY HAPPEN IN THE NEXT FIVE DAYS. THE OUTCOME DEPENDS ON WHAT WE DO RIGHT NOW.
Today in America
1 in 3 women
get cancer
1 in 4 Americans
die of cancer
1 in 8 women
get breast cancer
5 Million Americans
have Alzheimer’s
1 in 2 men
get breast cancer
23.5 Million Americans
have an auto-immune disease (MS, ALS, lupus, etc.)
1 in 6 men
get prostate cancer
40% of Americans
will get diabetes
1 in 55
boys get autism
133 Million Americans
have a chronic or disabling disease
Around the World
million people each year learn they have cancer; 8M each year die from it
million people will die of a chronic disease in the next ten years, half under age 70
million people worldwide have diabetes
Every 7 Seconds
Someone in the world dies of a diabetes-related illness