Cancer is the main explanation for demise by illness amongst kids (ages 0 to 19) within the US, with a toddler identified with most cancers each 36 minutes. However, attributable to developments in know-how, enhancements in information evaluation, and analysis collaboration, it may be efficiently handled — and greater than 84% of youngsters identified with most cancers survive 5 years or extra.
Every September, the nation spotlights the necessity for extra consciousness and assist within the battle towards pediatric most cancers. This month, many organizations, advocacy teams and healthcare establishments band collectively by a sequence of occasions and dedications that honor the youngsters, the survivors and the heroes who dedicate their lives to discovering new remedies and enhancing the well being of youngsters and younger adults with most cancers. The targets are sometimes to indicate assist, elevate consciousness and fund analysis that can enhance treatment and care for kids identified with the illness.
Hyundai Hope On Wheels
For 25 years, Hyundai has been on a quest to finish childhood most cancers with Hyundai Hope On Wheels. What began as a neighborhood effort in 1998 with a gaggle of New England-area sellers has was a nationwide trigger that’s backed by Hyundai Motor America and its community of over 830 sellers throughout the nation, with a portion of each new automobile buy supporting the trigger. By fueling cutting-edge analysis, igniting public consciousness, and dealing with main companions and hospitals nationwide, it has its sights set on a world freed from pediatric most cancers.
Hyundai Hope On Wheels has supplied analysis and assist grants to a number of the nation’s prime pediatric hospitals and analysis facilities. This yr Hope On Wheels made its largest dedication in a single yr with a file $25 million in grants and survivorship efforts which was introduced earlier this yr on the New York International Auto Show. This yr’s $25 million brings the group’s lifetime donation complete to $225 million, a historic milestone to rejoice its twenty fifth yr.
September is an important time of yr for Hyundai Hope On Wheels and its life-saving mission. During the month of September, grants are introduced in the course of the nonprofit’s signature occasion, Hyundai Hope On Wheels Handprint Ceremonies. Cancer sufferers and survivors, docs and researchers, and Hyundai companions dip their arms in paint and place their handprints on a white Hyundai automobile and docs’ lab coats to signify the collective struggle towards pediatric most cancers and an everlasting image of hope for a treatment. These ceremonies have turn into synonymous with the muse, particularly in September, with handprints symbolizing the namesake of the nonprofit itself, hope.
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Bringing hope to others
Hope additionally takes form in these kids who’ve entered remission or received their battle towards childhood most cancers. Every yr, Hyundai Hope On Wheels selects a brand new National Youth Ambassador to journey the nation and share their private tales of hope and braveness and assist unfold consciousness of the struggle towards pediatric most cancers.
This yr’s youth ambassadors are Raynie Clark, an 11-year-old from a city exterior Las Vegas, Nevada and Oliver Foster, an 11-year-old from Bloomington, Illinois. There have been over 10 chosen ambassadors who’ve impressed others with their messages of hope, lots of whom have gone on to turn into main voices of their communities.
“No child should ever have to hear the words ‘you have cancer.'”
Working along with the physician-research group, corporations like Hyundai are searching for to discover a day when no little one loses his or her struggle with most cancers once more. Hyundai Hope On Wheels is an integral a part of Hyundai’s international imaginative and prescient of Progress for Humanity.
“No child should ever have to hear the words ‘you have cancer’,” stated John Guastaferro, govt director of Hyundai Hope On Wheels. “To make that vision a reality takes all of us. The resilience, courage, and optimism of childhood cancer patients and families is an inspiration, and my hope is that others feel inspired to be part of our movement.”
Without essential funding, probably life-saving analysis, and new therapy therapies will go undone. Join the Hyundai journey and assist unfold the phrase. Through direct participation in a neighborhood charity or group or private involvement, we will all come collectively to assist put an finish to pediatric most cancers.
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