ChildrensCancerFund.org
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Children's Cancer Fund
Description
The Children's Cancer Fund (CCF) was founded in January 1993 by a small group of doctors, nurses and parents. The fund's primary goal is to establish and foster research in childhood cancer as well as enrich the quality of life for children with cancer by improving clinical and support services. CCF is based at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. In our 17th year our friends, family, volunteers and donors have increased to over 7,500.
The CCF Committee is comprised of over 30 parents of children with cancer, their friends, physicians, nurses, and others in the healthcare community. The committee is dedicated to raising money to conduct research in childhood cancers and providing patient services for children and their families. Throughout the tireless work of these committee members, and extraordinary support from the community, more than $200,000 was raised in an effort to open the Children's Cancer Research Laboratory. Now CCF funds not only research projects through its lab at New York Medical College but at other cancer centers in the U.S. and Canada. See our audited financial statements on this web site.
This laboratory has become one of an important few, involved in the study of minimal residual disease in Acute Lymphobolastic Leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. Although 70% of children with ALL are being cured, the single biggest obstacle to this cure has been relapse after a period of remission. Developing more sensitive methods to detect minimal residual disease will allow appropriate adjustments to treatment before relapse occurs. Advances in this detection methodology, through efforts at our facility, could be the key to renewed young lives. In addition to this, we have a new commitment to participate in research for Neuroblastoma, a form of pediatric cancer that has a very poor prognosis.
Contact
- Andrew Brenner, Chairman
- P.O. Box 658
- Millwood NY
- United States 10546
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- +1-800-426-5413
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