Connor Cures is Excited to Announce our Inaugural Connor Cure Gala and Silent Auction!

Why We Are Hosting This Event and Where Does the Money Go?

Too many children are dying from cancer.  Everyday, 7 die while 36 are diagnosed.  We lost Connor on January 6th, 2013 at the age of 6 months old.  No family should lose a child, especially one that young.  To hear the words âA?A? âA?A?Your child has cancerâA?A? âA?A? are to this day the worst words we have ever heard.  It is a nightmare that you never wake up from.  So, we want to help others avoid this fate.

Pediatric cancer gets very little funding.  In 2010, American Cancer Society donated 1 cent per dollar donated; Leukemia/Lymphoma donated 2 cents per dollar donated; National Cancer Institute put $176m towards pediatric cancer âA?A? less than 4%.

We will donate at least 95% of our proceeds to pediatric cancer research. We are planning on investing into a new phase 1 trial for a pediatric cancer drug that focuses on malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRT) including ATRT and other SNF5-deficient pediatric tumors, the biologic driver of the malignant features.  It is a promising new agent that appears to target one of the main drivers of the development of ATRT and several other tumors.  It will be studied in a pediatrics study conducted by the Pediatric Oncology Experimental Therapeutics InvestigatorsâA?A? Consortium (POETIC).  

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