Thank you for your interest in our website and more importantly our charitable efforts. We founded Dentists Against Cancer in memory of our mothers, Barbara Bueno and Margaret Sellick, both of whom passed away following extensive and courageous battles with breast cancer.  Gradually, our feelings of grief began to transform into a desire to help make a difference.

In 2009 Dentists Against Cancer was formed to make a difference in our community.  We felt money was wasted by being given to huge corporate charities that had to support administrative costs and overhead before the money ever reached someone in need.  We wanted to make an impact directly by helping women in need directly and eliminating overhead costs.

With the help of our friends at Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare, we found there was indeed a need for women not covered by insurance or with limits on their insurance for receiving mammograms, doctors interpretations of those images, diagnostic imaging if the mammograms showed a positive result, and other diagnostic services.  For women undergoing treatment, often the most difficult part of the whole procedure is not the surgery or the chemo or the radiation.   For some it is not even the loss of their affected breasts.

For many it is the loss of their hair.

For all of these reasons, we established a fund at Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare to help pay for these services for women that needed assistance.

However, due to the bureaucrats in California, they have made running our charity a nightmare and it is not something we can maintain.  Despite our best efforts at raising money, 100% of the net proceeds raised went to help hundreds of women as they battled breast cancer, the State of California is forcing our hand and we need to terminate our efforts.

In September of 2023, we filed the paperwork to dissolve the charity and have ceased collecting donations.  We closed our account and gave 100% of the money to Stanford ValleyCare Women In Need Fund to help more underprivileged women as they battle breast cancer.  Though shutting the charity down breaks our hearts, you can still help these women.  

You can donate directly to Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley at 1111 E. Stanley Blvd., Livermore, CA 94550 and tell them you want your contribution to help the women in need.  Their EIN is 94-1429628.  The Women In Need Fund should be all that you need to mention, but since people change jobs, you may just end up telling them to use the money to help underprivileged women as they battle breast cancer and let them take it from there.

Please do your research before donating to the big name charities like Susan B. Comen and others that waste millions on salaries, lobbying, and other non-related expenses.  Choose a charity that actually benefits the people battling this terrible disease.  That's what we tried to do.

Our mothers would want it this way.

Thank You For Supporting Our Cause.

Together we can make a difference!

Yours very truly,

Jeff Bueno, DDS

Email: jeff@pacificdental.com