Imanage that you child has cancer and you do not have the money to get him or her the treatment. But the last glimpse of hope comes from donations that generous people are willing to donate money to help families who can not afford the treatment and donate to cancer research. You can become one of the generous people who are willing to donate, who are willing to save a life. A non profit organization is the Children’s Cancer Research Foundation, that anyone can call and donate money too. They research ways how to prevent cancer, come up with a diagnosis, treatments, and a cure for the childhood cancers. The foundation opened in 1981 and have been revolutionizing the way childhood cancer is treated around the world. Their research has led to innovative treatments, speedier cures and new discoveries with cancers. The children’s cancer foundation asks for anyone who is willing to donate money for research and to help out the parents who can not pay for their child’s treatment, the smallest amount can save a life.
Kids who have cancer, most likely going to have to go through a treatment called chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a treatment that is very hard on the patient physically. So doctors wanted to do research on kids to find ways to help kids in the future better cope and get through chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is very important if you are trying to beat cancer (pacciulio 143). The pain and side effects of chemo will make the child hospitalized . Yet, with chemo you never know if the treatment will be a failure or a success (pacciulio 143). With understanding how kids cope with chemo and understanding chemo all around will help doctors to find different ways to make the treatments less traumatic. Donations help fund res...
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...all the kids have a second chance at a cancer free life. The average person can donate money to foundations looking to find a cure for childhood cancer. If you cannot afford to donate money then, donate your time by volunteering at a children 's cancer hospital to work with the kids and try to make their life as enjoyable as possible. So try not to be a person who looks the other way when a child is in desperate need of help, do not say, “there was nothing I could have done”, because there was. There are multiple ways to help kids with cancer. But the best ways to help is just giving them the time of day to say hello and play a game or two with them, the ways that make the kids smile and forget about cancer for a couple of minutes. If enough people come together and donate money the doctors are bound to come across a cure sooner or later for childhood cancer.
They are dedicated to raising funds for research into new treatments and cures for all children in the fight against cancer. To raise money and awareness of children with cancer, the money mostly goes to research that supports new treatments and cures. The organization has several different programs that benefit cancer research such as the Alex Gordon baseball tournament, Denver lemon climb, telethons, and many more. A few celebrities support their foundation, like Bailee Madison and Alex Gordon. They are dedicated to helping kids with cancer and wanted to make a
Pediatric Oncology is at the heart of many organizations. There are many financial and emotional burdens associated with a loved one having cancer, and thanks to these foundations parents and children can sleep a little bit better at night knowing that someone has their back. Some of the more prominent groups that have an impact here in our community are: Alliance for Childhood Cancer, Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, CURE Childhood Cancer, and National Cancer Institute (Mccaul). These are organizations that make an impact in the lives of the children battling cancer and their families. Whether an organization has been started in memory of a loved one or to support a college or hospital, organizations like those listed above have
Another example of how St. Jude is at the front of the research world is that “St. Jude is a world leader in developing new, improved treatments for children with cancer”. St. Jude successfully treats cancer at a better rate than most hospitals in the world. St Jude is also known as one of the “top national referral center for children with tough-to-treat forms of cancer”.
Progress and innovation are key components to discover new possibilities to fight against childhood cancer. To begin with, my interest in healthcare sparked when I was diagnosed with childhood sarcoma cancer at the age of seven. As a cancer
Anyone at any point could be affected with cancer so the foundations help ensures that we will one day find a cure to heal present and future cancer patients. ¨Alex’s Lemonade Stand has now raised over $100 million — probably about $110 million at this point — and have funded over 500 research projects all across the country, looking for new treatments for all types of childhood cancer,” (Carpetto). This explains the success this foundation has encountered and also proves the effectiveness of our donations. Since most donations fund the research projects, every penny given is towards a cure. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is little motivation for a cure. ¨Having a child with cancer is one of the most painful and difficult situations a family can face. One in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer by the time they turn 20. Despite this, less than 4% of the federal government’s total funding for cancer research is dedicated to childhood cancers each year,”(Scott). The cancer research as shown has little to no funding even though this is such a big issue. This is why your support towards ALSF is so important. Your donation can save many
Leukemia like any other cancer is devastating especially when it affects children and especially when they are too young to understand most of what is happening to their bodies. Facts like these are what should be used to motivate researchers and caregivers to help to make the process of treatment and care for patient dealing with disease one that is pleasant and supportive. The research should be taken seriously and it is hoped that in the future a cure can be found and the cause of the disease can be explained. It is also hoped that achievements like those can give families who are coping with disease or who have lost loved ones to the disease can find closure and solace in knowing that other may not have to go through what they have.
Cancer is a deadly disease that affects many people worldwide. This year about 564,800 Americans are expected to die of cancer, 18,000 of those people will be under the age of 18. That’s more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. One of every four deaths in the US is from cancer. Since 1990, there have been approximately 5 million cancer deaths. CITE THIS MOTHERFUCKER!! Each year, the parents of approximately 150,000 kids hear the words “your child has cancer.” That’s 43 children a day. In order to understand how cancer affects a family in everyday life as it relates to Cancer Slam by Ansley Dauenhauer, it is necessary to examine how cancer affects someone financially,
Pediatric oncology has been so very rewarding in many ways, but also so very cruel in a few ways. The good days are great, but the sad days are heartbreaking. But beyond the death and the suffering, there is a whole other layer of
In 1946, a woman by the name of Mary Lasker, a member of the original ASCC, helped raise more than $4 million for the Society, where one million of it was used to establish and fund infamous cancer research (ACS Inc, 2011). Soon after, Dr. Sidney Farber, one of the Society’s first research grantees, achieved the first temporary cancer remission in a child with acute leukemia using the drug Aminopterin (ACS Inc, 2011). The ACS has been developing research theories for decades, with approximately $3.5 billion dedicated to finding a cure to cancer through research (ACS, 2011). With the ACS name nationally recognized, they were able to help fund many national, government, and hospital prevention strategies and research.
Cancer is a word which evokes many different images and emotions. Nothing in this world can prepare a person for the utter devastation of finding out someone has been diagnosed with cancer, especially when this person is a child. Over the past twenty five years the amount of research and the survival rate for children suffering with cancer have increased dramatically. Despite these successes, the funding for new research necessary to keep these children alive and healthy is miniscule and too dependent on short term grants. Of the billions of dollars spent each year on cancer treatments and research less than a third is contributed to researching pediatric cancer. Given the media focus on adult cancers, research for pediatric cancer is underfunded. In order to maintain the increasing survival rate of the children undergoing pediatric cancer and support those who have survived the disease, better funding is quintessential to develop and further promote research.
“For many parents, facing this harsh reality is something they will have to deal with every day until remission”, states Cindy Cohen, Program Director for Kids Kicking Cancer a non-profit organization specializing in equipping families with ways to fight pediatric cancer. “It is important for families to identify and know the facts, especially once their child is diagnosed. It is also important for
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Cancer is a deadly disease that millions of people die from a year. Many loved ones are killed with little to no warning affecting families across our world. My family happened to be one that was affected by this atrocious disease. This event changed the way my family members and I viewed cancer.
This hospital focuses on helping children, in particular, children who have cancer or any other life-threatening diseases. “The mission is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay” (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 2017). These children are constantly attached to an IV in the hospital, unlike other children who don’t have any life-threating diseases. These children are unable to enjoy their childhood they way the other children do. This is the reason why we decided to a do a toy drive so with just the little bit of happiness they get when they receive these toys, can help distracted them to where they are and the pain they are going
When one hears the word “cancer”, thoughts about how their previous life is about to change cloud the mind, but when one hears the word cancer for their child, it is a whole different outlook; the affects of childhood cancer are not only taken on by the patients, but also by their families; the affects can range from emotionally to physically, socially to financially, and even educationally. “Childhood cancer is considered rare, especially compared with adults. Still it’s the leading cause of death in children pre-adolescent, school-aged children” (Report: Childhood Cancer Rates Continue to Rise, but Treatment Helps Drive Down Deaths). Around 12,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer every year and around one in five children that are diagnosed with cancer will die.