Pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but receives the least research funding of the major cancers.
Updated:
Feb. 10, 2008
Research Bears Fruit
Celebrate life and beauty and help fund pancreatic cancer research
Join the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance and Bigelow Nurseries and help fight pancreatic cancer.
Buy flowering crabapple trees at Bigelow Nurseries and a portion of the sales will be donated to support groundbreaking research to fight pancreatic cancer at UMass Medical School in Worcester.

Bill Bigelow (r) receives plaque from Alliance members Dick and Hilda Sweeney after conclusion of first year of the program. Bigelow Nurseries is generously continuing to raise money to fight pancreatic cancer through 2008.
Bigelow Nurseries, Inc.
455 West Main Street, Northboro, Massachusetts
Why crabapple trees? Planting a tree is a promise to the future, and flowering crabapples become more beautiful with each passing year as the branches spread and the blossoms multiply.
And investments in pancreatic cancer research are also gifts to the future with the promise of finding early detection tests, more effective treatments and ultimately a cure.
Sell Bigelow-grown flowering crabapple trees at your garden center, and you'll help, too. Questions? Please email Mary Beth Curnen
crabapples@pancreaticalliance.org. Thank you.
Get involved!
If interested in learning more or helping on a committee, please email us at
Hope@PancreaticAlliance.org