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| In 2005, Connor was an ordinary four-year old boy, with ordinary parents—Joy and Tait Cruse. He loved all Super Heroes, Bob the Builder, riding his bike, and dueling with toy swords and light sabers. He lived an ordinary life in Frisco, Texas until he got—what was thought to be—an ordinary tummy ache.
Connor’s tummy ache turned out to be stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a particularly deadly form of cancer that strikes thousands of children each year. Connor has undergone 12 rounds of chemo, two bone marrow transplants, 18 treatments of radiation, one 13-hour surgery to attempt to remove the tumor, and still he fights Neuroblastoma.
Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer found in infants, almost double that of leukemia, and the most common solid tumor cancer found in children, second only to brain tumors. It is also a very aggressive cancer. If, at diagnosis, the cancer has already spread—and this occurs 80% of the time—there is a less than a 30% chance of survival. Most treatments are in the clinical stage and merely prolong the life of the child.
For every dollar received through federal grants and private donations for pediatric cancer research, less than 3¢ goes towards funding Neuroblastoma research. The following statistics are shocking.
• Cancer is the number one disease killer of children and it kills more children per year than cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, asthma and AIDS combined, yet the National Cancer Institute’s federal budget allocates only 3% of its budget to pediatric cancer research.
• There are 15 cases of pediatric cancer diagnosed for every single case of pediatric AIDS and yet the U.S. spends $595,000 for research per victim of pediatric AIDS, yet only $20,000 per victim of pediatric cancer.
• The largest children’s oncology group in North America, which supports the clinical and biological research at over 200 participating institutions and treats 90% of children with cancer, received less than half of its requested budget from the federal government this year.
It is time to change this. That’s why TEAMCONNOR was formed. Together we can fund better treatment options for pediatric cancer, especially Neuroblastoma, and even find a cure. The CNCF, the Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation, is making tremendous strides with very few dollars. Imagine what they could do if all of their research projects were fully funded. We hope you’ll join us in this fight.
We need you on the team! |
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Total Donations: $95,386
Goal: $300,000
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