PHILANTHROPY
Rally for Rhyan
Rhyan is pictured above.
Loos family pictured above.
Rhyan was diagnosed with leukemia Fall of 2015. She has fought since day one and has been cancer free since December 2016.
Lizzy’s Walk of Faith
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.