TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation and Hawaiian Falls are teaming up for the second consecutive year to raise awareness and help fund research to find a cure for childhood cancer. Splash Out Childhood Cancer will be held 10:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Thursday, July 11th at Hawaiian Falls in The Colony. The day will be filled [...]
The Kick’n Childhood Cancer Charity Boot Camp benefiting TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation is scheduled for 9 – 11 am on Saturday, May 11, 2013. This fun-filled family event will take place at Lion’s Stadium on the campus of Prestonwood Baptist Church, 6801 W. Park Blvd. in Plano. The LiveWire Fitness Boot Camp instructors are hosting [...]
The III Forks Golf Classic and Auction Dinner benefiting TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation is scheduled for May 5 and 6, 2013. Amy Vanderoef, host of ABC’s Good Morning Texas and former Miss Connecticut USA will be hosting the May 5th auction dinner at III Forks Steakhouse. The Master of Ceremonies for the event is Mark [...]
TeamConnor junior advisory board member and Prestonwood Christian Academy senior, Julius Randle, announced he would be attending University of Kentucky to play college basketball. Randle, a 6-foot-9 forward, has been ranked among the top three players in the country by ESPN100. Randle had considered Florida, Kansas, and Texas for his new home. Randle and his [...]
The III Forks Golf Classic and Auction Dinner benefiting TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation is scheduled for May 5 and 6, 2013. The May 5th auction dinner will feature a live auction, a silent auction and dinner prepared by III Forks Steakhouse executive chef and proprietor Chris Vogeli. The event continues May 6 at the prestigious [...]
Dallas-based TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation recently awarded $320,000 in grants to four institutions across the country for the continued support of childhood cancer research. “Funding research is crucial to finding better treatments for children battling cancer,” said Jennifer Bolton, executive director of TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation. “TeamConnor is committed to funding more clinical projects that [...]
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Carolyn Alvey
Aardvark Communications
P.O. Box 941310
Plano, TX 75094-1310
972.423.4144
carolyn@aardvarktx.com
Jennifer Bolton
TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation
Two Lincoln Center
5420 LBJ Freeway
Suite 1300
Dallas, TX 75240
972 663 7327
JBolton@teamconnor.org
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Today, 46 children will be diagnosed with cancer. Seven will lose their battle.
Did you know September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!
Every day in America, approximately 46 children are diagnosed with cancer.
Childhood cancer does not discriminate, sparing no ethnic group, socio-economic class, or geographic region.
Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, accounting for about 3% of childhood cancers.
On average, 1 in every 4 elementary schools has a child with cancer.
About one-third of childhood cancers are leukemias.
Childhood cancer survival rates in the United States have increased from less than 20% in the 1960s to almost 80% today.
Cancer kills more children each year than Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Diabetes, and Pediatric AIDS combined.
Childhood cancer is not one disease entity, but rather a spectrum of different malignancies. Cancers found in children are biologically different from those seen in adults.
1 in 300 children will develop cancer before age 20.
Neuroblastoma is the most common extra cranial solid tumor cancer in children.
Today, up to 75% of the children with cancer can be cured, yet, some forms of childhood cancers have proven so resistant to treatment that, in spite of research, a cure is illusive.
