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—MEDIA ADVISORY—
CHILDREN WHO ARE BEATING CANCER ADD THEIR HANDPRINTS TO “HOPE
ON WHEELS” SUV AT UC DAVIS CANCER CENTER
July 27, 2005
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“Hope
on Wheels,” a national tour that raises awareness
and contributes funds to support pediatric cancer research,
is stopping at UC
Davis Cancer Center to donate $50,000 and to gather the
names and handprints of children who are battling--and beating--cancer.
The tour is sponsored by the Hyundai Dealers Association,
Hyundai Motor America and Cure Search National Childhood Cancer
Foundation. |
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| WHEN: |
Thursday, July 28, 2005
10:30 a.m.
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| WHERE: |
Outside the UC Davis Cancer Center
building
4501
X Street, Sacramento |
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| VISUALS: |
Children putting ink on their
hands and making a handprint on the “Wheel of Hope”
SUV parked in front of the UC Davis Cancer Center. Children
having their names and handprints scanned into a database
containing the handprints of other pediatric cancer survivors
nationwide for permanent transferal to the SUV at the tour’s
end.Interviews with UC Davis cancer experts and local Hyundai
dealersInterviews with children who are surviving cancer:
Amy O’Sullivan, who had a bone marrow transplant
to treat leukemia.
Francesca Arnaudo, who had a bone
tumor in her right arm treated and then had a second cancer
treated with a bone marrow transplant.Joshua Chapman,
who is part of a collaborative group study to treat high-risk
leukemia and will receive a bone marrow transplant
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Rodrigo Calvo, who had a kidney tumor treated.
Tony Nguyen, who had high-risk leukemia and had a bone
marrow transplant.
Omar Habhab, who is being treated for leukemia and is
currently in remission.
Andrew Stockton, who has
a malignant brain tumor and will receive a bone marrow transplant.
Matthew Sasaki, who has leukemia.
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| BACKGROUND: |
Cancer is a rare but serious
disease in children. Pediatric cancer specialists at UC
Davis Cancer Center diagnose and treat children with all
types of malignancies, including leukemia, lymphoma, brain
and other solid tumors, neuroblastoma, meduloblastoma, Wilms'
tumor, Ewing's sarcoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma. The program
is affiliated with the Pediatric Oncology Group, one of
two federally-funded sponsored cooperative groups dedicated
to the treatment of childhood cancers.
UC Davis also is the only cancer center in the region that
offers bone marrow transplants, a treatment that has evolved
over the past 35 years to become a standard treatment for
some cancers and blood disorders. The program serves both
adults and children, is the largest and most experienced of
its kind in inland Northern California, and is the only transplant
program in the region affiliated with the National
Marrow Donor Program, which gives UC Davis patients access
to potential donors worldwide.Other services in the pediatric
oncology program include:
Medical, surgical and radiation oncology
Comprehensive neuro-oncology services
Late-effects clinic
Pediatric infusion services
Medical, surgical and radiation oncology
Solid tumor management
Clinical
trials
Child
Life program providing counseling, art and music therapy
Free or low-cost lodging for parents at the Ronald
McDonald House or the Kiwanis
Family House.
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Media Contact |
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Carole
Gan
Medical News Office,
(916) 734-9047 |
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