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Many promising ideas don’t have the funding to move forward. Your gift fills that gap and ensures that talented researchers will leave no good idea unexplored.
Each dollar donated helps researchers secure an average of $18 from the government and other funding sources.
Troves of data around the globe could get us closer to answering the overarching questions: why do kids get cancer, and how can we treat each child in the best possible way?
But finding and putting this data together cohesively poses one of the biggest challenges in childhood cancer research.
Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF) is proud to award $10.5 million in its latest round of funding. The new grants support 12 research organizations that are working to improve treatment and outcomes for children and adolescents with cancer.
Today, when a child is diagnosed with leukemia, they’re told they are in for a long battle. Those years will include toxic treatments that can leave them with lifelong late effects. And for kids with a particularly rare form of leukemia, that’s all for a survival rate that is just a little better than a 6-in-10 chance of long-term survival.
