September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!

Something really cool started this week! Buildings all over the world are GOING GOLD to raise awareness of pediatric cancer! Here is a list of some other buildings "going gold" for one or more days during the month of September:

• Times Square
  
• One World Trade Center 
  
• The Prudential building in Boston
  
• The Terminal Tower in Cleveland 
  
• The Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island
  
• Niagara Falls Peace Bridge
  
• Ireland's Trim Castle
  
• Australia's Bell Tower
  
• The Parachute Jump at Coney Island 
  
• Various buildings along the Galway Cityscape in Ireland (The Browne Doorway, The Spanish Arch, The Galway City Museum, The Meyrick Hotel, and the g Hotel)
  
• Monmouth Medical Center in NJ
  
• The Convention Centre in Dublin
  
• The Millmount in Drogheda
  
• Belfast City Hall
  
• Dunbrody Famine Ship

Times Square

Coney Island Parachute Jump

Some childhood cancer facts:

• The incidence of invasive pediatric cancers is up 29% in the past 20 years.
  
• Each year around 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US, that’s more than a classroom of kids a day.
  
• 35,000 children are currently in treatment for cancer.
  
• More children die of cancer every year than adults died in 9/11.
  
• 74% of childhood cancer survivors have chronic illnesses, and some 40% of childhood cancer survivors have severe illnesses or die from such illnesses.
  
• Childhood cancer survivors are at significant risk for secondary cancers later in life.
  
• Cancer treatments can affect a child’s growth, fertility, endocrine, immune, and cognitive systems.

Here is just a small sample of how your donation goes to work:
$20.00 : Help to one family for one week to offset gas for commuting parents
$25.00 : One hour of music therapy
$50.00 : Fifteen minutes of nutritional therapy
$60.00 : One hour of Child Life coverage on the Inpatient and Outpatient units
$75.00 : One hour of a staff psychologist meeting with families and patients and siblings
$150.00 : One day of ongoing outpatient treatment for a Leukemia patient
$300.00 : Helps buy a wig for a patient who has lost their hair
$400.00 : Medical education doll used for play and teaching
$750.00 : One routine maintenance visit for treatment/therapy for a child with leukemia
$750.00 : One experiment in a research lab
$800.00 : One day of research in the search for a pediatric cancer cure
$1,000.00 : One day of a Social Worker team dedicated to the Pediatric Cancer floor at the Hershey Medical Center
$1,500.00 : One day of a Specialized Nurse Coordinators team to manage all patient needs at the Pediatric Cancer floor at the Hershey Medical Center

Please, consider donating to or joining our team and our mission! The children, the families, the researchers, and the clinicians truly appreciate it.