Here's what we have and why we have it!
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WHY WE ARE HAVING THE EVENT TO RAISE MONEY:
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 – “Your child has cancer” – 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 – 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 Investigators’ Consortium (POETIC).