Become a Champion in the Race to End Pediatric Sarcoma!

Posted on Jun 5th, 2012

Dani’s Foundation is hopeful that you will join 2012 Olympic Hopefuls Bonnie Brandon and Missy Franklin and Become a Champion in the Race to End Pediatric Sarcoma this summer.

Both Brandon and Franklin will be competing later this month in the USA Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, NE with the hope of joining the 2012 Olympic Swim Team in London at the Olympics.  Prior to embarking on their final training workouts, they took time out of their busy schedules to pre-record two Public Service Announcements for Dani’s Foundation which will be airing this summer on 9News and Root Sports Network.

We are hoping that many of Brandon’s and Franklin’s fans – and fans of the 2012 Olympics – will join with them and lend their support to Dani’s Foundation by becoming Champions in the Race to End Pediatric Sarcoma.  Participation is easy.  You may volunteer to help our Foundation or you may make a donation that will be used to fund patient programs, educational outreach and research.

Visit our website (www.danisfoundation.org) and click on this campaign on the right hand side of the Home Page to find out how you can become involved.

For all donations received this summer, Dani’s Foundation will send out a beautiful handmade lapel pin as thanks to our very special champions in this campaign.

Here’s looking forward to a summer filled with great successes for our Olympic Hopefuls and the Campaign to End Pediatric Sarcoma!

 

 

 

             
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DID YOU KNOW?

  • 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer every year in the United States
  • Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among US children ages 1-14.
  • 1 in 5 children diagnosed with cancer will die.
  • The average age of death for a child with cancer is 8.
  • Cancer kills more children than AIDs, asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined.
  • Everyday, 46 school children will be diagnosed with cancer.
  • One in 300 boys will develop cancer before the age of 20.
  • One in 333 girls will develop cancer before the age of 20.
  • The incidence of invasive pediatric cancers is up to 29% in the past 20 years.
  • In 2009, only 4% of the National Cancer Institute’s budget was used for pediatric funding.
  • Young cancer patients often have a more advanced stage of cancer when first diagnosed.
  • In 20 years the FDA has initially approved only one drug for any childhood cancer.  Half of all chemotherapies used for children’s cancers are 25 years old.
  • Physical and neuro-cognitive disabilities resulting from treatment may prevent childhood cancer survivors from fully participating in school, social activities and eventually work. 

Dani’s Foundation is working to put an end to pediatric cancer!

Dani’s Foundation was formed in memory of those children and young adults who have or are currently battling pediatric sarcoma; those rare forms of cancer that continue to affect and take lives.  This Foundation is committed to assisting the pediatric sarcoma community via our website resources and grants from our patient assistance grant fund; educating the public on the symptoms of these diseases with the hope of seeking earlier detection and ultimate survival; and working to raise the funding that will offer better treatment protocols for all pediatric cancer patients and to financially support that science that is working to find the cause and the cure for Ewing’s Sarcoma, Osteosarcoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma and the other forms of pediatric sarcomas that continue to affect children and young adulst.

Your support of Dani’s Foundation will help us in our mission to succeed!

Please join with Missy Franklin, Bonnie Brandon and thousands of others and become a Champion in the race to put  an end pediatric cancer!

RACE TO END CHILDHOOD CANCER CHAMPIONS

Megan’s Story

About Missy Franklin

Missy Franklin’s PSA for Dani’s Foundation

About Bonnie Brandon

Bonnie Brandon’s PSA for Dani’s Foundation