A foundation for early detection and prevention, built on a simple belief: women deserve to be seen before the symptoms begin.
Eva Gunilla Tucci, for whom this work is named.
Symptoms are not screening.
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States, yet unlike the Pap smear, there is still no routine early-detection paradigm. Too often, women are taught to wait for a warning sign. We are working to change that expectation.
For nearly a century, screening transformed the odds for one cancer after another. Uterine cancer was left behind, and the cost is rising.
Our evidence standard. Every statistic on this site is drawn from peer-reviewed research or major clinical guidelines, and cited. Our educational materials are developed with medical-advisory input, currently in formation. We do not publish anecdotal medical advice. When Amy shares her own experience, it is clearly labeled as her story.
In 1996, Eva was diagnosed with advanced endometrial cancer. Six months later, she was gone. When a woman is lost too soon, a daughter loses her mother, sons lose their center, a husband loses his partner, a whole family loses its sun.
The Eva Tucci Foundation was built from that loss, and from a conviction that earlier answers should not be a matter of luck.
Read the full storyUterine cancer is medically urgent and badly underfunded. We are small, new, and building the infrastructure of a movement from the ground up. That makes this the rare moment when a single gift helps decide what gets built.
reaches more women with the warning signs that could save a life.
funds the educational materials we put in front of women and clinicians.
keeps this work alive, issue after issue, woman after woman.
We are raising our first $250,000 to build the foundation's first year, and to launch the "Symptoms Are Not Screening" campaign. Gifts from $1,000 to $100,000 each build a specific, named piece of the work.
We focus upstream, on education and awareness that help women expect earlier evaluation, instead of being taught to wait until something is already wrong.
Cancer begins in a woman's body, but it changes daughters, sons, husbands, and fathers. We invite the people who love her into the conversation, including men and boys.
We are not a single campaign or a single device. We are helping build the educational and behavioral infrastructure that makes early detection routine, understood, and expected.
Most women were never told the truth about uterine cancer. See how much you already know.
"A Pap smear screens for uterine cancer."
A Pap smear screens for cervical cancer. It does not reliably detect uterine cancer, and there is no routine screening test that does.
"Any bleeding after menopause is normal and not worth a visit."
Any bleeding after menopause is never normal. It is the most common warning sign of uterine cancer and should always be evaluated.
"Uterine cancer deaths are falling, like most cancers."
It is one of the very few cancers in the U.S. where deaths are rising, not falling, and the trend is projected to continue for decades.
"Obesity is the single biggest driver of rising uterine cancer."
True. Excess body fat raises estrogen that stimulates the uterine lining, and more than half of uterine cancers, around 57 percent, are attributable to it.
Endometrial cancer is medically urgent and philanthropically under-served. That makes this the moment to make a visible, lasting difference, at the very beginning of a movement.