By Yolande Usher | Corporate Development Officer
“When I heard the words; your daughter has a brain tumour, I remember feeling like everything was closing in on me. I was in a room full of doctors and they didn’t think that there was anything they could do.”
- Jennifer, mother of childhood brain cancer survivor
When Logan was eight years old, her parents were grief-stricken to hear she was diagnosed with a brain tumour and given a few weeks to a month to live. After 153 doses of chemotherapy, 31 rounds of radiation and multiple surgeries, Logan is now a healthy, cancer-free teenager with a spark for life.
Brain and spinal cord tumours are the most common cause of cancer death for children in Canada, and treatment can have devastating consequences for a child’s brain development. For Logan, the many daily challenges resulting from long-term negative side effects remind her each day of her fight against cancer.
Research funded by the Canadian Cancer Society aims to minimize the devastating effects of treatment for young patients like Logan. Society-funded researcher Dr Sorensen’s project on the adaptation and survival of tumour cells under stress, could lead to more effective and targeted treatment options for childhood brain cancer.
Thanks to donors like you, the Society can continue to fund innovative research toincrease the survival rates for children with brain cancer, and improve their quality of life for years to come.
With your ongoing support we can continue to fund Canada’s best and most innovative research – research that leads to prevention, earlier detection, better treatment and longer, healthier lives. To learn more, or make a donation visit www.cancer.ca
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