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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.
Below are just a few examples of research projects that have been made possible because of dedicated supporters like you.
With more than 10,000 experts at 200-plus institutions around the world, the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is a research powerhouse. The consortium runs nearly 100 active clinical trials that aim to improve the care, survivorship and quality of life for children and adolescents with cancer.
Now, with funding support from CCRF, COG is growing its data team by hiring two new statisticians and moving two experienced statisticians into new roles.
For many childhood cancer survivors, the cancer experience doesn’t end when treatment is over. That’s why CCRF has introduced a new grant, the Healthy After Cancer: Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Award, which funds critical research that will lessen the impact of treatment and late-effects on childhood cancer survivors and ensures they have the information and care needed to live long, healthy lives after cancer.
Even before a baby is born, neuroblastoma can start to quietly creep through their nerve cells, growing into a tumor that might go undetected for months or even years. Infants and young children whose disease is classified as high-risk — where the cancer has spread and cannot be surgically removed — face some of the worst survival rates of childhood cancers.
But what if a simple heel prick soon after birth could catch neuroblastoma earlier and change a child’s cancer trajectory? That’s what Eun Mi Jung, PhD, an epidemiologist and post-doctoral associate in the University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics, hopes to find out.
