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Because worldwide a child is diagnosed with cancer every 3 minutes

3Why Support St. Baldricks?

1 in 5 children diagnosed with cancer will DIE within 5 years

of all cancersurvivors

experience late effects

of treatment

60%

SOURCESwww.cancer.gov/statistics/!nd

www.cancer.org

Because of St. Baldrick’s funding...

of kids with cancer, it has already spread to other areas of the body by the

time it is diagnosed

80% in

Since 2000 more than 250,000 shavees—including more than 26,000 women—have shaved their heads at 6,000 events,raising more than $152M in critical funds

for childhood cancer research

Childhood cancer has increased 21% in the last 36 years

Filling the Funding Gap for Childhood Cancer Research

THE 2011 NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE BUDGET WAS

1/2 of all chemotherapies used for children’s cancer are over years old25

In yearsthe FDA has only

approved drugs for any

childhood cancer

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went toward childhood cancer researchonly 3.7%

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$5.196 billion

St. Baldrick’s donors and volunteers have enabled the foundation to fund over

in grants, allowing the foundation to fund more in childhood cancer research

grants than any organization except the U.S. government

$103 million

...an idea turns into laboratory work

which may developinto a clinical trial

which may progress through all four phases of a trial

which may contribute to better, less toxic treatments or a cure.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation funds every stage in the process. The foundation

provides grants to over institutions for

laboratory and clinical research and to help make clinical trials available

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Please visit www.stbaldricks.org/campaigns/netapp

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