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Tar Heal Tuesday – All in for a healthier North Carolina.

December 3 is Tar Heal Tuesday, which is how UNC Health celebrates the international day of giving, Giving Tuesday!

We hope you’ll join us in supporting UNC Lineberger and life-saving cancer research on this special day of giving.

UNC Lineberger is the only public National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the state, serving the people of North Carolina and beyond.

A gift to UNC Lineberger provides resources for physicians and scientists to uncover the causes of cancer at the genetic and environmental levels, to conduct groundbreaking laboratory research, to provide compassionate care, and to translate findings into innovative clinical trials.

Your gift to UNC Lineberger can support the following areas:

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Where the Need Is Greatest

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only public National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the state, serving North Carolina and beyond.

A gift to UNC Lineberger provides resources for physicians and scientists to uncover the causes of cancer at the genetic and environmental levels, to conduct groundbreaking laboratory research, to provide compassionate care, and to translate findings into innovative clinical trials.

Support UNC Lineberger


A patient lifts hand weights with a Get Real & Heel trainer.

Get Real & Heel

Get Real & Heel is a unique program designed to serve cancer patients in North Carolina. The program integrates individualized prescriptive exercise administered in small groups of cancer patients in active treatment to provide a program that strengthens the body and mind.

Get Real & Heel is not just an exercise program — it is a community of people leaning on each other as they discover wellness in the midst of cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Multiply your impact to this fund – check out the matching gift challenge!

Support Get Real & Heel


A staff member of the Patient and Family Resource Center meets with a caregiver in the resource library.

Comprehensive Cancer Support Program

The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Support Program (CCSP) provides support services and conducts research to help patients and their support communities cope with cancer, recovery and survivorship.

Multiply your impact to this fund – check out the matching gift challenge!

Support the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program


Young adult cancer patient sits and is talking with Program Coordinator Lauren Lux on a sofa.

UNC Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program

A cancer diagnosis is never easy. But imagine being a teenager, a recent college graduate or a newly enlisted soldier, and learning you have cancer. For adolescent and young adult cancer patients, facing the pain, stress and confusion that accompanies a life-changing diagnosis comes with unique challenges.

UNC Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program provides age appropriate psychosocial and medical care for patients and their support communities, advances research in the field of AYA oncology, educates providers about the unique needs of young people living with cancer, and improves care for AYA patients across the state of North Carolina and beyond.

Multiply your impact to this fund – check out the matching gift challenge!

Support UNC AYA


Your support makes a difference in the lives of so many. Don’t miss this chance to do good and feel good this Tar Heal Tuesday. Thank you for your support!

Be sure to share on social media using #TarHealTuesday and tagging UNC Lineberger!