Description: The KGCRF has chosen to invest its funds directly in dedicated cancer researchers in hope of helping them achieve significant accomplishments which will help eradicate cancer
cancer research (213) aiding cancer research (3) study of the cause of cancer (3) investigate the treatment and cure of cancer (3)
Karin Grunebaum (née Wassermann) was born in Berlin, Germany on September 2, 1918 – the second daughter of a prominent banker. Her apparently very beautiful and loving mother died from a cancer-related operation when Karin was only 6 years old – which would prove to be a strange precursor to Karin’s own life.
In June 1958, at age 39, Karin Grunebaum, the mother of four children and a loving wife, suddenly passed away from cancer only three months after giving birth to her youngest child. Because her pregnancy had masked the symptoms of cancer, the disease had already metastasized throughout her entire body by the time the cancer was diagnosed a month after giving birth. There was no way to know what type of cancer she had. The primary site of the malignancy remained unknown.
After Karin passed away, her husband, Fritz Grunebaum, established the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation as a lasting memory to his beloved wife so that other families could avoid such a tragedy by helping to identify and treat all tumors regardless of location.