Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

INDIANA – September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and the Batcole Foundation is working to spread this awareness.

Here are some fast facts:

• An estimated 400,000 children around the world develop cancer each year, only half of whom are ever diagnosed. Each year in the United States alone, 17,000 children are diagnosed with cancer (considered extremely rare).
• Childhood cancer isn’t the same as other adult cancers. Sure, leukemia or lymphoma may share a name with adult cancers, but children require different treatments since their bodies are still developing.
• Only six new drugs have been approved exclusively for childhood cancer in the past 3 decades.

We must work together to fight childhood cancer.

The Batcole Foundation is a public 501(c)3 non-profit, that is committed to raising funds for research to develop novel, superior therapies for neuroblastoma and other pediatric cancers.  Together with our foundation board, specialized pediatric cancer treatment centers, and physicians, our goal is to identify clinical therapies that have the most promising clinical blueprints for success. 

Our hope is to bring awareness, of how underfunded pediatric cancer research is, to individuals, families, schools, and communities.  We want these groups to partner with the Batcole Foundation to raise funding and awareness to fill this gap.

We also want to support families and centers where Cole was treated by decorating hospitals and treatment rooms for kids to brighten the lives of these kids and families who have to go to the hospital for treatment.  

The Batcole Foundation also provides fun, decorative Band-Aids through its Band-Aid program, and toys to hospitals and treatment centers throughout the year.

To help fund the research of childhood cancer treatments, you can donate to the Batcole Foundation HERE or by finding it on their website.