![]() Targeted therapies offer great hope in providing better cures for childhood cancer with fewer side effects. In 2012, Ohio All-State football player, Matt Colella who battled cancer as a middle school student, started the Kick-It Champion program, by asking others to. ![]() Since it was founded in 2005, Curing Kids Cancer has raised more than $20 million to fund new childhood cancer treatments and pediatric cancer research. Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children in the United States, and according to the nonprofit, there is a 1 in 285 chance a child will be diagnosed with cancer before age 20.Ībout Curing Kids Cancer: Grainne and Clay Owen founded Curing Kids Cancer, a 501(c)3 nonprofit devoted to funding cutting edge pediatric cancer therapies, after they lost their son, Killian, to leukemia in 2003 when he was nine years old. Since 2005, Curing Kids Cancer has raised more than $20 million for pediatric cancer research. Duke, Houston and South Carolina will also be wearing helmet stickers and wristbands on Saturday, while Georgia and Alabama participated in First and Gold earlier this month. Tarleton is one of six colleges to help bring awareness to pediatric cancer this month, and one of four programs set to do it on Saturday. Bottom line – more children are being saved. "That awareness is helping to raise more funds that are making the difference between a child surviving or not. ![]() "In the nine years of our 'First and Gold' campaign, college football teams have really helped raise awareness of the desperate need for funding for childhood cancer research," said Grainne Owen, Curing Kids Cancer co-founder and president. They shared one striking commonality: Their fathers all played football for the University of Michigan in the 1990s. ![]() Curing Kids Cancer has worked to bring awareness of childhood cancer, where they say research is underfunded. Three children were diagnosed with brain cancer in a year and a half. On Saturday, the Texans will wear helmet stickers and wristbands while coaches wear wristbands, gold whistles and lanyards to show their support of First and Gold, a campaign to promote National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton football is making Saturday's contest against New Mexico Highlands a little more meaningful, as the program has teamed up with Curing Kids Cancer to show their support for pediatric cancer awareness. ![]()
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