Childhood cancer day 2,000 children fall ill each year
Childhood cancer day, 2000 children fall ill each year
From 3 to Feb. 23 you can support Fondazione Umberto Veronesi by texting from a cell phone or calling from a landline at 45516 to give at children and ai boys with cancer hope to fight this terrible disease and become great.
Proceeds from the fundraiser will fund leukemia treatments, specifically a treatment protocol for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which accounts for 75% of childhood leukemia cases and affects about 350-400 children in Italy, mainly between the ages of 2 and 5 years.
Supporting this project is critical
Supporting this project is essential because enable children and young people with receive immediate and highly effective treatment, thanks to cutting-edge therapies. In fact, although the 5-year survival rate after diagnosis has increased from less than 10 percent in the early 1960s to the current 80 percent, recent studies show that it is currently very difficult to improve these results any further through intensification of chemotherapy. It is necessary to develop new combinations of first-line treatments, using, also more targeted non-chemotherapy drugs and treatments, according to the logic of the precision medicine, to get as close as possible to curing all the little ones suffering from ALS.
Developing these treatments therefore represents, for children and young people affected by this terrible disease, a hope to recover and become great. With a text message from a cell phone or a call from a landline to 45516, Feb. 3 to 23, you can help Fondazione Umberto Veronesi ensure they get the best therapies and have the opportunity to grow up and be able to realize their dreams.
In Italy, there are just over 2.000 children (up to age 14) and adolescents (ages 15 to 19) who get cancer each year.
With the project to benefit pediatric oncology and adolescents, Fondazione Umberto Veronesi and A.I.E.O.P. (Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology), collaborate to promote scientific research and support the costs of running and starting up treatment protocols for childhood cancers for these children and young people. Treatment protocols provide operational guidelines for taking charge and treating each patient, according to the highest and most innovative international standards, thus ensuring the better chance of recovery.
Umberto Veronesi Foundation, which since its inception has supported scientific research by providing numerous research grants to high-profile doctors and researchers and has been committed to science popularization, has since 2014 launched a project to support medical care and research in pediatric oncology and promote proper scientific information on this topic.
