Vs. Cancer wasn’t just built by athletes for athletes. We were started by a pediatric brain cancer survivor. We know from personal experience that family support and research are both critical for children to thrive.
As a signature fundraising campaign of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, proceeds help fund child life programs in teams’ communities and research to cure the deadliest childhood cancer.
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s Vs. Cancer program is helping to fund an Educational Liaison for brain tumor patients to help make sure every child’s school provides the educational resources necessary for a child to transition back into school after treatment. Support from the PBTF does not stop after treatment is complete. We are passionate about supporting families through survivorship.
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s Vs. Cancer program is funding psychology consultants at CHLA that help pediatric brain tumor patients cope with diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
Many Vs. Cancer teams choose to support the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s Butterfly Fund which provides emergency financial assistance to families of children in treatment at 18 partnering hospitals across the country. Butterfly Fund covers out-of-pocket expenses, such as housing, transportation and groceries.
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s Vs. Cancer program is helping to fund the Music Therapy Program in the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s National. Music therapy is used to help patients address physical, emotional, social and cognitive needs.
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s Vs. Cancer program provided grants to 73 children’s hospitals and cancer centers across the nation thanks to our Vs. Cancer teams and their commitment to supporting children battling brain tumors in their communities.
“We are so thankful to the Texas A&M Baseball Team for raising funds and awareness for cancer research in such an interactive way. Their gift of a portable therapy machine will have a significant impact on our patients’ lives at the MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital. We thank everyone involved for your support in Making Cancer History.”
Principal investigators: John Sampson, MD, PhD, MBA, Oren Becher, MD and Kendra Congdon, PhD
Institution: Duke University
Award: $400,000 over three years
Award: $300,000 over three years
Principal Investigator: Stephen C. Mack, PhD, Texas Children’s Hospital
Primary mentor: Donald W. Parsons, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital
The Brain Tumor Funders’ Collaborative (BTFC) will fund $3 million in grants to four multi-institutional teams studying immunotherapy in primary brain tumors. The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (PBTF) is honored to be one of the BTFC’s six funders on this initiative. The projects funded by the BTFC will examine vaccination strategies, the tumor’s micro-environment, anti-tumor T-cells, and personalized immunotherapy approaches.
