A unique NFT series made using real living cancer cells, to fund treatment for those suffering from these cancers.
1. A REAL PATIENT'S
CANCER CELLS ARE IMAGED
2. AN ARTIST USES THESE IMAGES TO CREATE ARTWORKS
3. THE ARTWORKS
ARE MINTED
AS NFTs
4. FUNDS RAISED
GO TO THE PATIENT'S TREATMENT
ABOUT
THE FIRST NFT SERIES DESIGNED TO DIRECTLY FUND CANCER TREATMENT
Buy My Cancer blends science, art, medicine and technology in an effort to save lives. Microscopic photographs of real living cancer cells are used as a basis for artwork created by world-renowned artists.
These artworks are turned into unique NFT collections to support the treatment of patients suffering from these rare types of cancer.
The first edition of Buy My Cancer focuses on the fight against rare blood cancers using cutting edge, but costly, CAR-T cells therapy. This treatment has proven high clinical efficacy and is truly a last chance for qualifying patients.
A LIFE-SAVING THERAPY
CAR-T is a cutting edge, extremely effective and dynamically developing branch of immunotherapy that can directly impact cancers resistant to other methods of treatment.
CAR-T cells use the patient's own immune cells (lymphocytes). They are subjected to genetic engineering (reprogramming) so that they can recognize cancer cells and fight them. After appropriate stimulation, they are administered again to the patient in the intravenous form.
These reprogrammed lymphocytes multiply when they come into contact with cancer and remain in the patient’s body as 'living medicine'.
Clinical trials indicate that CAR-T cells therapy can cure about 40% of patients for whom there are no other effective treatments.
But like most cutting-edge treatments, it comes at a price - around $400,000 per patient. And it’s not always covered by insurance.
Buy My Cancer NFT collections will be available on VAST, the world's first multimedia NFT marketplace. Artists, photographers, writers, and more use VAST to create and offer their work online through the use of blockchain technology. It’s the best place to discover and collect truly unique digital creations by the world's most creative minds.
HOW IT WORKS
Jacek Jassem MD, PhD
Prof. Jacek Jassem, M.D., Ph.D., is the Head of the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the Medical University in Gdansk, Poland. A world-renowned specialist in the field of oncological radiotherapy and clinical oncology, Prof. Jassem has won many national and international scientific awards and according to Stanford University, is in the top 2% of scientists in the world. He is a cancer survivor himself and described his personal experience in his book “Stopped on the Run”.
He is a member of Academia Europea, European Academy of Cancer Sciences and Polish Academy of Art and Sciences. He is a past president of the Polish Oncological Society, and and held several officer positions in ASCO, ESTRO, ESMO, IASLC and EORTC. He is the author of the current Polish anti-tobacco legislation and the coordinator of the Polish Strategy for Cancer Control 2015-2024.
Sebastian Giebel MD, PhD
Prof. Sebastian Giebel, M.D., Ph.D. is a specialist in internal medicine, hematology and clinical transplantation. He’s the head the Bone Marrow Transplantation and Onco-Hematology department at the National Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, and President of both the Polish Adult Leukemia Group (PALG) and Polish Lymphoma Research Group (PLRG). Professor Giebel is also a secretary of the working group of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), a member of Polish Society of Hematologists and Transfusionists.
Authoring over 250 scientific papers, mainly in the field of hematology and hematopoietic cell transplantation, he was awarded the Jedrzej Sniadecki Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2017—the highest national distinction in the field of medicine.
SWANSKI
Paweł SWANSKI is an artist whose creativity knows no bounds. A designer, craftsman and contemporary artisan, he became famous for his large-format murals across Berlin, Los Angeles, Bristol and Warsaw.
SWANSKI is perhaps best known for creating energetic and beautiful ivy-like structures. And here, as part of the Buy My Cancer project, SWANSKI’s ivy entangles and suffocates living cancer cells.
“Cancer is an enemy that is difficult to defeat, but we must try.” - SWANSKI
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THE PEOPLE BEHIND
BUY MY CANCER:
THE CANCER FOUNDATION
Our goal is to fight cancer. We work to ensure equal access to the best oncology care for all. We defend the dignity of patients with cancer and create tools that enable them to make informed health decisions. For over 10 years we have been one of the main NGOs supporting cancer patients in Poland. To date, we have donated more than $6 million to those most in need and are striving for even more. We give courage!
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