Pediatric cancer receives only about 4 percent of the total amount of funding that the National Institutes of Health doles out for cancer research.

Those who specialize in pediatric cancer research, like Dr. Seth Corey, a researcher and pediatric oncologist with the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, must often depend instead on philanthropic donations to do their work — and Corey has just received two more such donations to continue tackling pediatric leukemia.

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