This project focuses on fundraising for a nonprofit organization. The specific event that the project focuses on is the CHKD Cancer Prom. The Prom is for the fun of treatment cancer kids or up-to 1 year off of treatment and sickle cell patients with ages ranging from 8-16. The prom is just a fun gathering for the kids to be kids and to get everything else off of their mind. Usually the organization receives a grant and they get donations of food from Chick-fil-a. You can never have too much money to help, with the money left over it will go to more research for sickle cell. Every year too many lives are affected or taken by cancer. To be exact every year in the U.S. there are about 15,780 kids between the ages of birth and nineteen years
These fundraisers are done in several ways the very first means of donation came from a telethon conducting in 1983 by founders Marie Osmond, John Schneider, Mick Shannon, and Joe Lake. After the success of the telethon with nearly 4.8 million dollars raised, many large corporations joined in the efforts to provide resources for sick and injured children. Many high-name corporations such as Marriott International, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Cosco, Dairy Queen and Ace Hardware are leading participants in donations. These donations are done in the form of tournaments, relays, telethons, and various other marathons. One of the most well-known forms of donations is done though the CMN paper balloon sales.
...0’s cancer mortality rates have dramatically decreased from 10% to over 80% for leukemia. Overall decline in mortality for cancer was nearly 54% from 1978 to 2008 (National Cancer Institute, 2011). Decrease in mortality rates are due to improvements in cancer treatments. Recent advances in treatments are due to aggressive cancer therapies and collaboration of findings from clinical trials. More than 80 percent of patients are expected to be long term cancer survivors (National Cancer Institute, 2011).
The first meeting between Dr. Hruby and I was delayed significantly due to the incredible length of time it took the hospitals to process my paperwork. Upon arriving at his office at Twin Cities Hospital, Dr. Hruby gave me a brief introduction to his career as a general surgeon oncologist as well as the path he took to becoming a doctor. Then I had the opportunity to listen to him make 2 phone calls to patients concerning radiographic and laboratory results for breast cancer. The first patient had an X-ray with nothing of significant concern, and she was nervous before receiving the results. The next patient had a breast biopsy that showed she did have breast cancer, but the tumor was so small in size that the biopsy was enough to remove
Childhood cancer is a life altering experience, not only for a child, but for their entire family. It is the leading cause of death in children from the time of birth to 14 years of age, defined by the ag...
The public health issue the organization is working to address is to find a cure for blood cancer. At an estimated amount close to 1,012,533 people in the United States are have been diagnosed with leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and myeloma. A majority of the diagnosed are living with or are in remission. According to LLS, every four minutes someone new is diagnosed with blood cancer and approximately every 10 minutes dies from blood cancer.
Isn’t it overwhelming to consider the fact that approximately one in eight deaths in the world are due to cancer? To make this more comprehensible, the number of deaths caused by cancer is greater than caused by AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Along with the idea that this disease does not have a definite cure is a mind-staggering concept to grasp. If not caught in time, cancer means guaranteed death. These types of thoughts were floating around my head when my mother had told me that my father had mouth cancer.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that affects breathing. This disease is one that blocks or obstructs air flow which then affects the way that one breathes. It diminishes the capability of airflow in and out of the lungs. COPD is the term used for a group of different diseases that affect the lungs. The two most common types of COPD are emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Emphysema is a destruction of the small bronchioles in the lungs and chronic bronchitis is an inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes. Both emphysema and chronic bronchitis are obstructive diseases that impact breathing in a negative manner. (COPD, 2014)
Government funding has proven to be essential and effective in the fight against cancer. On December 23, 1971 President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, which promised to finance the quest for the cure. Financial aid such as this has directly benefitted survival rates for those diagnosed with cancer. Forty years ago before such funding was provided, when a child was diagnosed with cancer most physicians considered the patient to be terminally ill and supportive care was almost the only thing offered to the family. However over the last few decades, due to research and participation in clinical trials performed due to funding, the majority of children are cured. Because of the creations of new drugs and therapies as a result of government aid, the survival rat...
I am going to raise money to help pay for horses and an arena for kids with disabilities or who have witnessed deaths or been in or witnessed a bad accident to be able to get to know a horse, ride it, and have fun.This cause is significant because some people aren’t able to afford to have a horse but it would help them with their disabilities and struggles to help and overcome them.
In a perfect world, cancer would not exist, but the best that society can do is donate toward cancer research. Unfortunately, as a whole, our society is unaware of where donations are needed and where their donations are going. The diseases with the most victims receive less donations than diseases that do not kill nearly as many. One of the biggest aspects of the misallocation of donations is the simple fact that donations are being sent to the wrong places. Childhood cancer, of all the cancers, seems to receive the least amount of donations. Many people donate toward diseases with good intentions, but childhood cancer is not receiving an adequate amount compared to other foundations or associations.
Initially, cancer kills many people. There are over one hundred different types of cancer, and half of them have been cured at a time. Even at that there is still no guaranteed cure. Sure you’ll have a higher chance of curing cancer if you catch it early in the making, but not everyone does. A cancer report by a leading US health organization estimates that cancer kills 7.4 million people worldwide this year. Every four out of ten patients are diagnosed with cancer, but only four out of ten people that have been diagnosed with this ugly disease catch it early. That leaves 60% of everyone with cancer a guaranteed death. So why are so many people dying from it and why hasn’t this disease been extinguished, even after fighting with it for over a hundred years? The obvious answer is because cancer is a very hard disease to cure.
“There is a can in Cancer because we CAN beat it.” There are more than 100 cancers in world they can be caused in many different ways. It can sometimes be caused by smoking or obesity. Once stated by someone “ no matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be... Thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive.” I believe money should go to the American Cancer Association because some cancers can’t be cured, we need a cure, people we know have or had cancer like my dad and some people don’t survive so we need everybody to donate to the American Cancer Association to help save people's lives.
Too many kids die from cancer each year for childhood cancer to go so unnoticed. So exactly how “rare” is childhood cancer? Every three minutes, somewhere in this world a child will die from cancer (About Childhood Cancer). In fact, cancer is the number one killer of kids in the United States. Cancer will take more kids than AIDs, muscular dystrophy, asthma, and cystic fibrosis combined (A Dozen Awareness Facts). Although there are more adults than children diagnosed with cancer per year, a child who dies to cancer will pay a greater price. When an adult dies of cancer, on average they will lose about ten to twenty years of life. But when a young child dies of cancer, they lose an average of seventy to eighty years of life. Not only that, these children are being robbed of their childhood. These children should be playing outside and learning to read and write, not being poked, prodded, poisoned with tre...
Because 7.6 million people die from cancer every year, action should be taken to find a permanent and effective cure. There is no reason why cancer patients should not receive effective and affordable treatment. Even though there are cancer treatments currently, these treatments being effective, they are costly and cause great pain to the patient.
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.