Brain Tumor Awareness Month | Bridge to a Cure Foundation

Founder Bob Martin reports on our mission-critical progress toward breakthroughs for America’s #1 killer of children by disease, brain tumors. Each moment that goes by is another that inflicts pain and suffering on children and families forced to deal with this horrific disease. Enough is enough.

HELP US END DEATHS DUE TO CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMORS

THE DESTRUCTIVE IMPACT OF BRAIN TUMORS

Most deadly forms of childhood cancers — the leading cause of death by disease among children in the United States.

A form of brain cancer took the life of Foundation Founder Robert Martin’s granddaughter Clara at just 6 years of age in 2017. Each year more than 28,000 Americans are diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Adult cures won’t work for children. The biology and pathology of children is not the same as adults and neither are their brain tumors. A cure for adults is not a cure for children.

Not ONE drug has been developed specifically to treat pediatric brain tumors.

Bridge To A Cure is fixated on the eradication of childhood brain tumors.

The best, brilliant minds are working on cures for brain tumors: not one drug has been developed.

WHY?

It’s because these great minds don’t have access to the critical data essential to discovery. We are working to remove the barriers that block access to this data across the entire data ecosystem:

GOAL: ACCESSIBLE DATA IN REAL-TIME

Building Bridges To Cures Through Strategic Alliances

Focus:

Data Collection
Identify what needs to be collected and in what format

Data Storage
Create efficient databases formatted to process meaningful insight

Data Access
Provide easy, real-time access to facilitate analysis and discovery

Funding:

Research Funding: St. Baldrick’s Foundation – Member, Board of Directors

Goal:

Define & unify terminology

Model for open science

Facilitator for national database

Our Role:

Allied Partner, Fundraiser

Executive Council Member

Engagement Group

Help us turn the tide this Brain Tumor Month and open up real-time, collaborative access to the data that leads to cures.

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