Early Diagnosis: Give Cure a Chance

Project Report | Jul 10, 2014
Volunteering and Research

By Caroline Martins and Caroline Brunetto | Project Leader

The Children Cancer Institute in RS has developed 14 areas for volunteers to act. During the first semester of 2014, more than 300 volunteers of the institution helped and participated in several actions as in recreation with patients, family care and other different areas of activities as the many events of ICI/ RS. In the first half of 2014 there were a total of 648 children and adolescents assisted by the institution.

Our effortfor the 2nd half of 2014 is to face one of the major events that ICI participates which is MAC DIA FELIZ, this event will take place in August the 30th. During this day all the sales of the BIG MAC Hamburgers will revert to the institution helping to support the children and adolescets with cancer in Brazil. This year all the money raised will be for the construction of our new integrated Support Center, which aims to increase and quality care for patients and their families.

The Department of Cellular and Molecular Research aims to understand the tumor biology and to identify new strategies for the treatment of childhood cancers. Furthermore, it operates in the training of human capabilities at high level (masters and doctorate) specialize in pediatric oncology besides stimulating publication in international journals.

In the current semester, several abstracts were submitted to participation in scientific conferences and two papers were published:

Sassi FD, Caesar L, Jaeger M, Nör C, Abujamra AL, Schwartsmann G, de Farias CB, Brunetto AL, Lopez PL, Roesler R. Inhibitory Activities of Trichostatin A in U87 Glioblastoma Cells and Tumorsphere-Derived Cells. J Mol Neurosci. 2014.

Dos Santos MP, de Farias CB, Roesler R, Brunetto AL, Abujamra AL. In vitro antitumor effect of sodium butyrate and zoledronic acid combined with traditional chemotherapeutic drugs: a paradigm of synergistic molecular targeting in the treatment of Ewing sarcoma. Oncol Rep. 31(2):955-968, 2014.

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Mar 11, 2014
Give Cure a Chance: Our Victory Begins with You!

By Ana Lucia Abujamra | Chief of Research and Clinical Development

Health care workers after a seminar

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2013

POWERING THE POSSIBLE FOR CHILDREN´S CANCER CARE

Project "Give Cure a Chance: Our Victory Begins With You!"

Actions in Schools

The project "Give Cure a Chance: Our Victory Begins With You!" reached out to several schools in December and January. Besides being offering seminars and training to students and teachers, visits were also scheduled at the ICI-RS headquarters. So far, the following schools were attended by the ICI-RS team:

Date: November 18 – Escola Estadual Maria Claret (Esteio)

Place: School

Time: 10:00-11:30am

Attendees: students, parents and teachers (100 attendees)

Seminar by: Larissa Cavalheiro (Communication)

Caroline Brunetto Farias (Molecular Research Coordinator)

Goal: Raise awareness about the signs and symptoms present in pediatric malignancies.

Date: December 04 – Colégio Menino Deus (Porto Alegre)

Place: ICI-RS auditorium

Time: 2:30-4:00pm

Attendees: 17 students and one teacher

Seminar by: Lidiane Rosa (dentist)

Goal: Raise awareness about the importance of dental hygiene in pediatric patients.

Date: December 09 – Colégio Adventista (Porto Alegre)

Place: ICI-RS auditorium

Time: 9:30-10:30am

Attendees: 24 students and one teacher

Seminar by: Mônica Gottardi (education specialist)

Goal: Raise awareness about the importance of recreational activities in pediatric cancer patients.

Date: December 09 – Escola Estadual Rodrigues Alves (Cachoeirinha)

Place: School auditorium

Time: 9:30-10:30am

Attendees: 50 students and 3 teachers

Seminar by: Hadassa Gomes (Communication)

Goal: Raise awareness about ICI-RS and Dell partnership

Date: January 30 – Escola São Judas Tadeu (Porto Alegre)

Place: School auditorium

Time: 2:30-3:30pm

Attendees: 40 students and two teachers

Seminar by: Lidiane Rosa (dentist) and Renata Dutra (nutritions specialist)

Goal: Raise awareness about the importance of dental hygiene and modified eating habits in pediatric cancer patients.

Actions with the Community

With the goal of reaching the entire community, the project also contemplates raising awareness in parks and public venues. In July two work forces were present at the Parque Moinhos de Vento and Parque Farroupilha.

Date: January 21 – Parque Farroupilha

Time: 9:30-11:30

Atendees: 90 people

Seminar by: Gabriela Probst, Juliana Guarnieri and Camila Alves, psychologists.

Goal: Awareness of the ICI-RS and Dell partnership

Date: January 28 – Parque Moinhos de Vento

Time: 3:00-5:00pm

Attendees: 110 people

Seminar by: Lidiane Rosa (dentist), Renata Dutra (nutrition specialist), Leticia Cydade Barreto (social worker), Mônica Gottardi (education specialist),Ana Abujamra (chief of research) e Cristiane Nunes (administrative assistant)

Goal: Awareness of the ICI-RS and Dell partnership.

Other Events/Dell Involvement

Date: December 15 – Pediatric Oncology Society Meeting (São Paulo)

Time: 2:30-3:00pm

Attendees: 50 doctors, nurses and researchers

Seminar by: Joelma Freitas (clinical research coordinator)

Goal: Explain the current clinical research protocols

Besides raising awareness in schools and public venues, other events were organized in order to stimulate Dell teams participation and the creation of volunteer opportunites for Dell workers. Visits to the Dell headquarters at Eldorado do Sul, ICI-RS team participation at the Dell TecnoPuc fair and Dell workers visiting ICI-RS headquarters were some of the actions to tighten the Dell-ICI collaboration.

Date: November 23, 24 and 25 – Dell Visit

Place: ICI-RS auditorium

Attendees: 20 Dell workers

Goal: ICI-Dell partnership

Date: November 30 – Dell Visit

Place: Pediatric Oncology Unit at the University Hospital of Porto Alegre

Time: 4:00-5:20pm

Attendees: 9 Dell workers

Seminar by: Mônica Gottardi (education specialist) and Caroline Martins (volunteer and human resources)

Goal: Recreation activities with the patients

Data: December 16 – Dell TecnoPUC Fair

Place: Coffee Break Dell

Time: 1:30-3:30pm

Attendees: 21 Dell workers

Seminar by: Mônica Gottardi

Goal: ICI-Dell partnership

Date: December 17 – Dell TecnoPUC Fair

Place: Coffee Break Dell

Time: 1:30-3:30

Attendees: 22 Dell workers

Seminar by: Lidiane Rosa (dentist) e Renata Dutra (nutrition specialist)

Goal: ICI-Dell partnership

Date: December 19 – Dell Eldorado do Sul

Place: Dell Headquarters

Time: Das 13h30 às 16h

Attendees: approx. 600 Dell workers

Visitors: ICI-RS workers and volunteers

Goal: ICI-Dell partnership

Marketing

In order for ICI-RS to promote the ICI-Dell partnership and the Project “Cancer Awareness: Our Victory Begins With You!" our communication staff developed special branding for the Project, which was approved by Dell Brand. This branding was incorporated into t-shirts, banners, folders, notepads and pens.

The Project in Numbers

During the months of November and December, 15 different activities were planned and executed, totaling 22h30min and reaching out to a total of 1260 members of the community, including students, teachers, and parents.

Besides the events geared towards the community, this Dell partnership allowed for resources to create a Multidisciplinary Care facility at ICI-RS. A nutrition specialist, one psychologist and one social worker were hired in order to better serve the patients and their families. During the month of July, 134 families were assisted by our social worker, and a total of 99 appointments were offered: 61 by our dentist, 25 by our nutrition specialist, and 13 by our psychologist. Eleven children were assisted by our special education specialist and 528 children benefited from our recreation room, equipped with Dell tablets and computers.

One of our dentists tends to a patient

Volunteers celebrating after an event

Links:

Website in Brazilian Portuguese

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