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A 10 year old, Speaking from Experience

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Team Captain

Natalia Sofia is a childhood cancer survivor. Two years ago, she was only eight years old and diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma of her femur. She has endured surgery, intense chemotherapies and radiation treatments. She suffers from side effects of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Childhood Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Rare Disease, Uncategorized | Tagged adult chemo, AIDS, chemo side effects, Ewings sarcoma, Natalia Sofia, pediatric cancer, secondary cancers | Leave a comment

As Our Children Wait – Part 4, Conclusion

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Team Captain

The rate of childhood cancer has been escalating since the 1970’s, today 1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20. Our children continue to die, suffer and be irreparably harmed and all the while, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Childhood Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Rare Disease | Tagged AIDS, Children’s Brain Tumors, Children’s Health Act, Clinical Trials, COG, Congressional Caucus on Childhood Cancer, CureFest, Donna Carroll Carmical, Government Performance & Results Act, GPRA, National Children’s Study, National Institute of Health, NCI, NCI Operating Plan - Childhood Cancer, NCS, NIH, Pediatric Research Initiative, PLGA, Strategic Plan | 1 Comment

NIH Budget Priorities

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Team Captain

Each decade we lose more than 27,000 children to childhood cancer, another 120,000 suffer impacts of treatments including secondary cancers. This picture has not improved much over the past 30 years and it will continue to change only incrementally, if … Continue reading →