You Make It Possible To Find The Cure
Jun. 1st, 2010 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrThe blogosphere and news media are excited about the news from the Cleveland Clinic that a potential breast cancer vaccine may have been found. No human trials have taken place yet but the vaccine shows tremendous promise in mice.
Read the an article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer here:
http://www.cleveland.com/medical/index.ssf/2010/05/cleveland_clinic_research_offe.html
Did you catch the interesting bit, the bit that stimulated me to post? Allow me to quote: "Tuohy is applying for additional grant money from the National Cancer Institute and Susan G. Komen for the Cure to secure enough money to design and carry out human trials, which he hopes can begin before the end of 2011."
THIS, folks, is where the bulk of your donations go... toward the research and trials that validate whether potential miracles are REAL breakthroughs or merely blind alleys.
Clinical trials are not cheap; I've been involved on both the study management end (in a very minor capacity) and in the IT world, training on the software that manages clinical trial billing and integration with scheduling and visit management. It's not a trivial undertaking to do a double-blind trial, a properly managed one. All the treatment that takes place during the trial, other than the standard of care charges that would have been expected anyway, has to be paid for by the trial sponsor.
This is why I walk the Susan G. Komen 3-Day For The Cure. Sure, the inspiration and uplifting experiences are part of it too, but in the end, it's the cash that provides the chance at a cure for millions of women and men. My walking does not cure breast cancer, but the money you donate does.
I will be walking sixty miles in three days in Washington, DC at the beginning of October and then in Tampa Bay at the end of October. I'm also planning on staging a ONE-day sixty mile walk on June 18 and 19, walking all the way from the Canadian border to my home in Richmond, Vermont, and I'm hoping that by so doing I'll raise a further $2,133 and be able to take part in a THIRD 3-Day city this year. I do all of this in hopes of motivating you, my friends, relatives, acquaintances, and co-workers ... and people I don't even know... to contribute. I have raised $4,767 to date, but I need to raise a grand total of $6,900 to take part in three cities.
If you'd be willing to help out, I'd be grateful for your support. You can donate via the secure donation page found at http://www.the3day.org/goto/jayfurr -- all donations are fully tax deductible.
Please help make life-saving research possible. Please help bring about the world without breast cancer that we all dream of. Everyone deserves a lifetime!
Read the an article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer here:
http://www.cleveland.com/medical/index.ssf/2010/05/cleveland_clinic_research_offe.html
Did you catch the interesting bit, the bit that stimulated me to post? Allow me to quote: "Tuohy is applying for additional grant money from the National Cancer Institute and Susan G. Komen for the Cure to secure enough money to design and carry out human trials, which he hopes can begin before the end of 2011."
THIS, folks, is where the bulk of your donations go... toward the research and trials that validate whether potential miracles are REAL breakthroughs or merely blind alleys.
Clinical trials are not cheap; I've been involved on both the study management end (in a very minor capacity) and in the IT world, training on the software that manages clinical trial billing and integration with scheduling and visit management. It's not a trivial undertaking to do a double-blind trial, a properly managed one. All the treatment that takes place during the trial, other than the standard of care charges that would have been expected anyway, has to be paid for by the trial sponsor.
This is why I walk the Susan G. Komen 3-Day For The Cure. Sure, the inspiration and uplifting experiences are part of it too, but in the end, it's the cash that provides the chance at a cure for millions of women and men. My walking does not cure breast cancer, but the money you donate does.
I will be walking sixty miles in three days in Washington, DC at the beginning of October and then in Tampa Bay at the end of October. I'm also planning on staging a ONE-day sixty mile walk on June 18 and 19, walking all the way from the Canadian border to my home in Richmond, Vermont, and I'm hoping that by so doing I'll raise a further $2,133 and be able to take part in a THIRD 3-Day city this year. I do all of this in hopes of motivating you, my friends, relatives, acquaintances, and co-workers ... and people I don't even know... to contribute. I have raised $4,767 to date, but I need to raise a grand total of $6,900 to take part in three cities.
If you'd be willing to help out, I'd be grateful for your support. You can donate via the secure donation page found at http://www.the3day.org/goto/jayfurr -- all donations are fully tax deductible.
Please help make life-saving research possible. Please help bring about the world without breast cancer that we all dream of. Everyone deserves a lifetime!
