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| Quick Facts |
- Childhood cancers are the #1 disease killer of children - more than asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined.
- Childhood cancer is not single disease, but rather many different types that fall into 12 major categories. Common adult cancers are extremely rare in children, yet many cancers are almost exclusively found in children.
- Childhood cancers are cancers that primarily affect children, teens and young adults. When cancer strikes children and young adults, it affects them differently than it would an adult.
- Attempts to detect childhood cancers at an earlier stage, when the disease would react more favorably to treatment, have largely failed. Young patients often have a more advanced stage of cancer when first diagnosed.
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| Gala Event |
| Hope & Heroes raises almost half of its yearly income for children with cancer through events, including an annual fundraising dinner. |
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Our Tenth Annual Dinner was a huge success, raising over $375,000. Below, Dr. Michael Weiner, recipient of the Legacy of Hope Award flanked by Dr. Lee Goldman, (Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine), and Dr. Lawrence Stanberry (Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University.
For more pictures, click here.
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Please join us on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at Espace (645 West 42nd Street).
Our honorees will be:
Don Garber, Commissioner, Major League Soccer,
receiving the 2012 Legacy of Hope Award.
Kim Corbett & Deborah Jay, organizers of several community fundraising events, receiving the 2012 Dustin Drapkin Memorial Award.
Any questions? Contact Katie Leiby at 212.305.5010 or via email.
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The dinner began in 2002 in honor and celebration of Katie Brown, a young cancer survivor. The dinner was organized by her parents Marianne and Michael Brown and was attended by her devoted family and friends. In 2006, the Brown’s and Hope & Heroes joined forces to launch a larger event in New York City.
The dinner has grown tremendously while retaining the warm and friendly family atmosphere of the early years. The charity has honored the Brown Family (2005), Hope & Heroes founder Michael Weiner, MD (2006), the Alfano Family Foundation (2007), Noel Wax, VP of CBS Sports (2008) and Kara Kelly, MD, Director of our Integrative Medicine program (2008), and Jeff Kurtz, President of Kamson Corporation (2009). In 2010, we honored board members Scott & Sharon Prince with the inaugural Dustin Drapkin Memorial Award and Hyundai Motor America with the inaugural Legacy of Hope Award.
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