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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
20 2
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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