Just a post to point out the cool widget on the sidebar of our blog. All you do is enter your cell phone number and $5 will be donated to Children's Cancer Research Fund. It will show up on your cell phone bill. (don't worry...there isn't any telemarketing that will happen if you do this) Then if you give, you can copy the widget code for your blog or facebook page. Pretty cool. Maybe $5 doesn't seem like a lot, but $5 from a lot of people will make a difference. Just one example...
Right now the doctors we support are starting phase 1 clinical trials on a brain tumor vaccine. Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children. This specific tumor often returns after the standard treatments (surgery,chemo, radiation) and two year survival rate is only 27%. That's why doctors have been working on a vaccine to prevent the return of the cancer cells. Last year we funded the lab work and the doctors were actually able to save 2 local dogs (for all you animal lovers I want to clarify that they were family pets that had a similar type of brain tumor that humans get). Anyways, they are now able to move into the first clinical trials with children who have a high chance of recurrence. The cost of this is about $25K-$30K per child--drug production, the research documentation, the cost of the actual trial since most insurances won't pay beyond the standard treatments etc. So this is just one example of research moving from the lab to a patient right NOW. Isn't that amazing?
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