Mark Wilson/Getty Images(CNN) - A year after a rare form of cancer ended the life of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, her memory is inspiring more funding to try to find a cure. The Aretha Franklin Fund for Neuroendocrine Cancer Research has been launched by the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF) in Boston, the Detroit Free Press reported. Franklin died on August 16, 2018 from the disease. Neuroendocrine tumors afflict about 171,000 people in the United States and it's an often-misunderstood disease. Pancreatic cancer is actually a different form of cancer known as pancreatic adenocarcinoma.