The University of makes approximately 100 new diagnoses per year. One of the primary goals of the division is to offer novel therapies to allow patients to receive treatment within the region and not have to travel elsewhere. This grant will provide support to hire a nurse coordinator for neuroblastoma and sarcoma patients on clinical trials, providing them with additional access to those trials.
鈥淭he St. Baldrick鈥檚 Foundation grant will help children diagnosed with cancer to receive the best care here in Louisville,鈥 said pediatric oncologist at UofL. 鈥淲ith the grant we hope to help more children and their families stay close to home to get the treatment they need.听
The grant to UofL is part of a series of grants that, combined with the more than $24.7 million awarded in July to fund cutting-edge research, brings the St. Baldrick鈥檚 Foundation鈥檚 funding total to more than $27.2 million awarded in 2014. Grants were awarded based on the need of the institution and its patients, anticipated results of the grant and local participation in St. Baldrick鈥檚 fundraising events and activities.
鈥淭hese grants are critically important to saving children鈥檚 lives, and would not be possible without our dedicated volunteers and generous donors who believe kids deserve better than medicine is currently able to provide,鈥 said Kathleen Ruddy, chief executive officer for the St. Baldrick鈥檚 Foundation.
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