St. Baldrick's supports childhood cancer research and funds grants to help find cures. A child is diagnosed with cancer every 3 minutes and 1 in 5 diagnosed will die within 5 years. Childhood cancer rates have increased 21% in the last 36 years. St. Baldrick's has raised over $152 million through head shaving events to fund over $103 million in research grants, more than any organization except the US government. This funding has helped turn ideas into clinical trials and develop better, less toxic treatments or a cure.

1. Why Support St. Baldricks?
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Because worldwide a child is diagnosed
with cancer every 3 minutes
1 in 5 children diagnosed with
cancer will DIE within 5 years
Childhood cancer has increased
21% in the last 36 years
in
80%
of kids with cancer, it has
already spread to other
areas of the body by the
time it is diagnosed
Since 2000 more than 250,000 shavees
—including more than 26,000 women—
have shaved their heads at 6,000 events,
raising more than $152M in critical funds
for childhood cancer research
Filling the Funding Gap for
Childhood Cancer Research
THE 2011 NATIONAL CANCER
INSTITUTE BUDGET WAS
$5.196 billion
3.7%
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only went toward childhood cancer research
1/2 of all
chemotherapies
In 20 years
the FDA has only
used for children’s
cancer are over
approved 2
drugs for any
25 years old
childhood cancer
60%
of all cancer
St. Baldrick’s donors and volunteers have
enabled the foundation to fund over
survivors
experience
late effects
of treatment
$103 million
in grants, allowing the
foundation to fund more in
childhood cancer research
grants than any organization
except the U.S. government
Because of
St. Baldrick’s funding...
...an idea turns into
laboratory work
which may develop
into a clinical trial
which may progress
through all four
phases of a trial
which may contribute
to better, less toxic
treatments or a cure.
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation
funds every stage in the process. The foundation
provides grants to over 200 institutions for
laboratory and clinical research and to help make
clinical trials available
SOURCES
www.cancer.gov/statistics/find
www.cancer.org
Join the NetApp® effort by volunteering
to shave your head or by making a donation.
Please visit www.stbaldricks.org/campaigns/netapp