HOW MAD ARE YOU ABOUT CHILDHOOD CANCER?
...Find out here with the answers to Team MadDog's Childhood Cancer Quiz:
1. Which month of the year is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month?
September
2. What color represents childhood cancer awareness?
Gold
3. Can you name two types of childhood cancer?
There are a dozen types and countless subtypes. Examples include Neuroblastoma, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and Rhabdomyosarcoma.
4. Why has Team MadDog joined other teams to run, walk & cycle a Million Miles?
Team MadDog is participating in an event organized by Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to help raise awareness of childhood cancer and to raise funds to target toward the most promising research for cures and safer treatments.
5. Why are childhood cancers different from adult cancers?
Childhood cancers are often the result of DNA changes in cells that take place very early in life, sometimes even before birth. Unlike many cancers in adults, childhood cancers are not strongly linked to lifestyle or environmental risk factors. Because a child's body is still growing, treatment for childhood cancers usually creates later effects that last lifetimes, including cognitive problems, hearing and eyesight challenges, stunted musculoskeletal development, and second cancers.
6. How many children die from cancer worldwide every day?
About 250.
7. Who was Alexandra “Alex” Scott?
Alex Scott was a young girl who was diagnosed with the rare childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, at the age of one. In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Despite her ongoing battle with cancer, lemonade stand raised $2,000. Her example caught fire across the country and before long, Alex and thousands of other kids were all holding their own lemonade stands. Alex passed away in 2004, but not before her lemonade stand, along with others, raised $1,000,000. Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer is truly an extension of Alex's first lemonade stand. Alex is considered the founder, and her legacy of hope, compassion, earnestness, and determination underpin the organization's mission and approach to funding research for cures, and helping children have better quality of lives during treatment.
8. Are there any reasons you would go a Million Miles?
Any parent – or sister, or brother, or BFF - and likely any aunt, uncle, or cousin – would go a million miles to find a cure if their child had cancer. I would.
9. What percent of federal cancer research funding goes to childhood cancers?
Even though children (consider infancy through age 19) make up 26% of the U.S. population, childhood cancers receive only about 4% of overall federal spending on cancer research.
10. What is the “valley of death” in cancer research funding?
The "valley of death" is a metaphor for a place where promising drugs and treatments die before reaching their potential. It is the poorly funded gap between research and clinical trials. Without sufficient funding, these promising drugs never make it into the field.
11. Why doesn’t childhood cancer research attract more public or corporate funding?
Children don't vote, there aren't many celebrity children, and they don't control a family's resources. All of childhood cancers are relatively rare and unique to their age. As a group, kids and their parents. don't usually have strong enough leverage to make a difference. In addition, pharmaceutical companies find little reason to invest in developing childhood cancer treatments because each type of childhood cancer represents a small market as compared to adult cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and others.
12. How many $1 cups of lemonade would fund 1 hour of childhood cancer research?
Since it takes approximately $50 to fund 1 hour of childhood cancer research, it takes 50 cups. That's a lot of lemonade.
13. Do you patronize any corporate sponsors of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation?
The Foundation's national corporate sponsors include A&P, Applebees, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Northwestern Mutual, Rita's Ice, Toys'r'Us, Volvo and the Vetri Foundation for Children. These are listed and linked in the footer of the Foundation's homepage.
14. Why is Team MadDog so Mad?
Team MadDog is Mad because cancer bites. It bites children and their families especially hard. That makes us mad.
15. What is Team MadDog doing about childhood cancer?
Team MadDog is biting back against childhood cancer by participating in The Million Mile - Run.Walk.Ride. while raising awareness of childhood cancer and raising funds for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to target to the most promising research for cures.
16. What is one of more than a dozen ways for you to help Team MadDog help hundreds of thousands of children with cancer?
I personally like the quick, easy way offered by TEXTing a $10 donation. But there are a wide variety of possible ways to help. See the full menu at our webpage. http://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/1118154.
If you would like further information please email our team at [email protected]
Great job. I know you can hit 1000 miles. Thanks for making a difference to kids with cancer.