Personalize Cancer Treatment for 50 Kids
SummaryThinkCure!: New six-gene chips can determine a child's response to treatment by testing their blood or bone marrow. This lets doctors personalize treatment, resulting in more kids beating cancer.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $5,000 was raised for this project. |
Received $5,000 from 71 donations from people like:
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Children who are facing a recent cancer diagnosis will benefit from these new gene-chips. Doctors can predict each child's response to treatment, which means that the kids have a higher likelihood of beating their cancer through the most effective treatment possible.
Activities
ThinkCure! funds research and treatment projects at City of Hope and Childrens Hospital LA that use advanced, collaborative techniques like these gene-chip technologies to predict how each patient will respond to different types of cancer treatment.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,000
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $5,000 . The original project funding goal was $5,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
ThinkCure! Our aim is to find cures for cancers in our lifetime, and quickly. We want to continue to reduce the number of children who die of cancer, here in America and around the globe.
Project Message
To see a little angel battling cancer...it's not fair. We all just need to do something, because it's not IF we can find the cure but WHEN.
- Marikym Hervieux, ThinkCure! Supporter
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Sarah Gallagher
Project Leader
1000 Elysian Park
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States
310-993-5827
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Think Cure!
1000 Elysian Park Ave
Los Angeles,
CA
90012
United States
323-224-1360
www.thinkcure.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
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United States
and can also be found under 
Health.
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When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 2009
