Support for Cancer Patients and their Families

Daiichi Sankyo has held the “Daiichi Sankyo Presents Family Ties Theater” program in cooperation with the Shiki Theatre Company and NPO Cancer Support Community Japan every year since fiscal year 2010. Through this program, we invite cancer patients and their family members to enjoy musicals by the Shiki Theatre Company out of our desire to help underscore the importance of family ties in supporting one another and to give them the strength to continue their fight against cancer.

In fiscal year 2019, approximately 450 patients and their family members were invited, and eight Daiichi Sankyo Group employees volunteered to run the event. They received comments from attendees such as, “We are waiting eagerly for new medicines.” The employees of Daiichi Sankyo will take their wishes to heart and these wishes will be a motivation in our drug discovery efforts.

^*The event was not held in fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021 due to the impact of COVID-19.