Gwyneth Paltrow

Biography

 The Oscar-winning actress has used her stardom, and the visibility it brings, to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Oral Cancer Foundation. Paltrow’s father, director Bruce Paltrow, died at 58 in 2002 of complications from oral cancer. Not long after, Paltrow’s mother, Blythe Danner, Paltrow and her brother founded the Bruce Paltrow Oral Cancer Fund. Managed by the Oral Cancer Foundation, the Paltrows’ fund donates money primarily to distressed inner-city neighborhoods and rural towns whose incidence of, and rate of death from, oral cancer are twice the national average. The disease, which is gaining prominence in dental-health circles, strikes more than 48,000 Americans a year and will kill half of them within five years — a rate that has remained stubbornly immobile for a decade.

Research Interest

oral cancer trust