Battling Cancer

Good Cause Blogger Sue Richards writes at Performancing

I’m an artist who has been independently publishing a beautiful, educational, fine art photography, breast cancer prevention calendar for 6 years and selling it on-line. For the last year and a half I’ve been blogging about my process.

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Nicole Kidman visited a children’s hospital ward with her son and daughter shortly after they arrived in Sydney for her widely anticipated wedding to Keith Urban.

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They spent about two hours visiting the oncology, hematology and neurology wards, chatting with patients and officials.

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Bags lined the track course in memory and honor of cancer patients.
“We remember you. We remember your fight and we appreciate your fight and you give us hope and courage,” Sarah Dickens the Community Manager with the American Cancer Society.

… “No individual is diagnosed with cancer. This is certainly a family disease. It affects everyone and just seeing the community and outpouring. It’s just overwhelming as a survivor,” Deans.

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“My name is Josh and I am 8 years old. My friend David has cancer but I can’t heal him.”

Josh Kelly wrote these words in a card he will give to the Hospital for Sick Children this Friday along with $1,000 in donated money and games.

[MORE: TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - Josh, 8, works for the cure]

By Tom Hanks. The James Fund for Neuroblastoma Research at SickKids Honorary Patron Tom Hanks.

In March of 2001 the The James Fund for Neuroblastoma Research at SickKids was created.

The objective of the fund is to help researchers develop pilot data from feasibility studies to be subsequently used in new research grant proposals leading to new therapies for the treatment of patients with neuroblastoma. To date ten neuroblastoma research grants have been awarded. Read More

Foreword By Tom Hanks. The James Fund for Neuroblastoma Research at SickKids Honorary Patron Tom Hanks In March of 2001 the The James Fund for Neuroblastoma Research at SickKids was created. The objective of the fund is to help researchers develop pilot data from feasibility studies to be subsequently used in new research grant proposals leading to new therapies for the treatment of patients with neuroblastoma. To date ten neuroblastoma research grants have been awarded. Read More

About Neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma is one of the most common solid tumours of early childhood usually found in babies or young children. The disease originates in the adrenal medulla or other sites of sympathetic nervous tissue. The most common site is the abdomen (near the adrenal gland) but can also be found in the chest, neck, pelvis, or other sites. Most patients have widespread disease at diagnosis.

Apr. 1, 2006. 01:00 AM

A new quarter, a collaboration of the Royal Canadian Mint and Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, will go into circulation today.

The coin will be adorned with a pink ribbon, a symbol of the disease that touches so many. Last year, 21,600 women and 150 men in Canada could expect a diagnosis of breast cancer; it was expected to kill 5,000 women and 45 men.

Designed by the mint’s director of engraving, Cosme Saffioti, the quarter will be Canada’s second coloured coin. The first, 2004’s red poppy quarter, garnered attention as the world’s first painted circulation coin.

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