Fredericksburg.com

5/17/2015

People may realize how important it is to find a cure for childhood cancer, but Kim DuPriest wants to help them make the leap from awareness to action.

“I know you’re aware, but let’s do something about it,” she said.

DuPriest has made that her mantra in recent years. Recently, she was recognized at a Pentagon ceremony for her efforts to fund cancer research, and in a national fundraising event, her family was selected Virginia’s “hero family.”

The need to study causes and treatment of childhood cancer—because it develops differently than tumors in adults—is near and dear to the Spotsylvania County mother.

Her daughter Jordan was 12 when she died in November 2013 from anaplastic ependymoma, the third-most common brain cancer.

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