Because worldwide a child is diagnosed with cancer every 3 minutes 3 Why Support St. Baldricks? 1 in 5 children diagnosed with cancer will DIE within 5 years of all cancer survivors experience late effects of treatment 60% SOURCES www.cancer.gov/statistics/nd www.cancer.org B e c a u s e o f S t . B a l d r i c k ’ s f u n d i n g . . . of kids with cancer, it has already spread to other areas of the body by the time it is diagnosed 80% in Since 2000 more than 250,000 shavees —including more than 26,000 women— have shaved their heads at 6,000 events, raising more than $152M in critical funds for childhood cancer research Childhood cancer has increased 21% in the last 36 years Filling the Funding Gap for Childhood Cancer Research THE 2011 NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE BUDGET WAS 1/2 of all chemotherapies used for children’s cancer are over years old 25 In years the FDA has only approved drugs for any childhood cancer 20 2 went toward childhood cancer research only 3.7% } $ 5 . 1 9 6 b i l li o n St. Baldrick’s donors and volunteers have enabled the foundation to fund over in grants, allowing the foundation to fund more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government $103 million ...an idea turns into laboratory work which may develop into a clinical trial which may progress through all four phases of a trial which may contribute to better, less toxic treatments or a cure. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation funds every stage in the process. The foundation provides grants to over institutions for laboratory and clinical research and to help make clinical trials available 200 Join the NetApp effort by volunteering to shave your head or by making a donation. Please visit www.stbaldricks.org/campaigns/netapp ®