70 YEARS OF ACTIVITY For Cancer Patients

Israel Cancer Association // Annual Report 2022

Equipment, Construction and Development

The ICA lends a hand in the construction, renovation and operation of oncology departments at medical centers across the country and funds the purchase of innovative state-of-the-art medical equipment at medical centers and oncology institutes. This support is facilitated only when an earmarked donation is received by the ICA, from which the organization takes no overhead, making certain that the medical institution to which the donation is allocated is prohibited from deducting overhead, so that the donation is transferred in full. The ICA’s contribution in construction, renovation and equipment purchase for medical centers in 2022: • A Lazer CO2 device for the ENT Unit at the Wolfson Medical Center Multi-disciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Center in Holon. This device is critical for the treatment and removal of head and neck tumors. Donated by the ICA with assistance from the Soffi and Abraham Stuchinsky Fund . • A Calorimeter measurement device for the Cancer Metabolic Clinic at The Davidoff Center for the Treatment and Research of Cancer, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva. The device will help nutritionists provide clinical nutrition consultation for oncology

patients. Donated by the ICA with assistance from the Soffi and Abraham Stuchinsky Fund . • Fifty comfort chairs for cancer patients receiving ambulatory treatments in the outpatient oncology clinic of the new Shaare Tzedek Cancer Center. Donated by the ICA with assistance from the Soffi and Abraham Stuchinsky Fund . • A breast biopsy device under mammography for breast cancer patients at Lin Medical Center, Haifa. The device serves breast cancer patients being treated at the Haifa and Western Galilee District of Clalit Health Services. Donated by the ICA with assistance from the Goldenberg Fund . • Approval to assist in establishing a pediatric hemato oncology outpatient unit in Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba. • Reestablishing the Shaare Zion bequest named after Yosef Ben Ezra Haim Neigo OBM , who was the principal of Mikveh Israel during 1891-1904. The bequest will enable the establishment of a Proton Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Proton Therapy is an advanced radiotherapy method which focuses the therapeutic energy on the tumor area itself, thus reducing the damage caused around it.

Unveiling ceremony at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Right to Left: Prof. Ido Wolf , Head of the Oncology Unit; Moshe Bar Haim , ICA Director General; Ronen Tsafrir , former Mikveh Israel principal; Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef , the Bequest Trustee; Prof. Ronni Gamzu , CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

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