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Lizzy’s Walk of Faith
At the tender young age of 9, our daughter, Lizzy, lived a normal girls life of jumping rope, gymnastics and playing with Barbie dolls. She enjoyed her daddy-daughter dates, playing legos with her siblings and shopping with her mother. One day, Lizzy began to complain of “growing pains” in her knee and we decided to get it checked out by her doctor. To our shock and unbelief, we heard what no parent should ever hear, “Your child has cancer.” For the next 15 months, Lizzy was treated at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Tragically, on March 15th, 2018, Lizzy bravely and courageously finished her battle to bone cancer. Lizzy’s story became a cause for many to rally around throughout the world. Her passion for her purpose of faith, generosity and compassion kept her strong throughout her journey. Lizzy’s race against cancer, as well as too many others, ended too soon due to the need for a cure for Osteosarcoma.
Lizzy is pictured above.
Lizzy’s story (available for purchase).
Lack of Funding
Roughly 47 kids receive the devastating diagnosis of pediatric cancer each day, with the average age of diagnosis being a mere 10 years old. Cancer is the leading cause of disease deaths in those under 20 years old, with the additional complication of 95% of patients that survive experiencing significant treatment side effects by age 45. Despite all of this, pediatric cancer research is consistently underfunded. Though the National Cancer Institute has a research budget of nearly five billion dollars, only about 4% of this is dedicated to pediatric cancer research. Pharmaceutical companies make up about 60% of funding for adult cancer research but for children this percentage drops to around 1%. With the current disparities in funding, pediatric cancer research relies on private companies just like us to work towards KNOCKING OUT pediatric cancer.