Today is #InternationalChildhoodCancerDay. You can help build awareness with your virtual handprint. Scan the code to see how you can participate.
Each year over 300,000 children are diagnosed with cancer. Will you lend your hand to help?
#iccd2021#CAC2
Thanks to a funding partnership among #ChildhoodCancer foundations, including CAC2 Members @SolveKidsCancer and @zoe44life, pediatric cancer researchers at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia and Gustav Roussy received $1.3 million to study precise treatment for neuroblastoma.
The FDA approved #DANYELZA last week, a new therapy for for patients with relapsed/refractory high-risk neuroblastoma.
Congrats to CAC2 Supporting Organization Member Y-mAbs Therapeutics, which discovered and developed DANYELZA!
All the details:
https://t.co/YiylbfLZqp
CAC2's Hope Portal is the community's comprehensive cloud-based tool designed to assist families and health care professionals with fast and simple guided navigation of organizations that provide #ChildhoodCancer support services. and information: https://t.co/29IkEIO48S
Today we begin a month dedicated to bringing awareness to #ChildhoodCancer.
If you're one of our members who are "Working Together for a Future Without Childhood Cancers," please tag us or use hashtag #CAC2 so we can re-tweet and share!
#ChildhoodCancerAwareness
We're sharing to be sure the #ChildhoodCancer community in America is kept informed of the situation on the ground in Beirut -- and how to help, for those with the ability to do so.
CAC2 salutes Members @SolveKidsCancer, @Momcology, Ty Louis Campbell Foundation, and @Max_Cure who are working with Friends of Karen to host an expert-led discussion for families on coping with COVID & #ChildhoodCancer on Aug 27th at 1:30ET.
Register:
https://t.co/w86Urw0Aof
Joe🎗
Joe Baber🎗
No measuring tape on this planet can measure this man’s impact upon the lives of children with cancer.
There is a very special place in all of our hearts for this man who pours his heart into all he does to help end #ChildhoodCancer
Thank you, @JoeBaber1
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is almost here!
The CAC2 Gold Awareness Project offers CAC2 members creative ways to promote gold and September and increase awareness of childhood cancer:
https://t.co/oSpUwKI4F9
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is just a couple weeks away! There's still time to reach out to your local and state officials to begin the process of having your city, county, or state proclaim September as #ChildhoodCancer Month:
https://t.co/wooSxC0n6R
So many organizations have asked how they could help get #GMKF2 signed into law. It’s easy. Simply have your foundation/organization’s name added to the list of supporters https://t.co/umaQvzAIZ2 @ABF4kidscancer@accorg@CBTTC @Lisawar15086001 @The_NCCS @kids_research
Kids First Second Chance engages community organizations in advancing childhood cancer sequencing research in an effort to amplify the impact of the @KidsFirstDRC.
@ValerieACotton, Kids First Program Manager with @NICHD_NIH, shares more on our blog: https://t.co/1GdS56XynT
Many foundations also provide assistance to families in need. @cac2org maintains a list for childhood cancers, @DragonMasterFdn maintains a list for adults and children with brain tumors, and there are many others! Google your condition and the word "foundation" to find help.
The global incidence of childhood cancer is increasing. In low and middle income countries as many as 80% of children with cancer will die: #CUREALL#childhoodcancer
Today is International Childhood Cancer Day. 2,500,000 children die every year with serious health-related suffering. 98% of these children live in low- and middle-income countries: #NOMOREBORDERS#childhoodcancer
Today's New Article - "Got a Pit Crew? #ChildhoodCancer#Survivors Start Your Engines!"
"So, what happens when you are driving down the proverbial road of life and need to make a pit stop that’s not cancer related? Where do you go?..."
Read Here:
https://t.co/nEI2rSNXx0