“Why don't you help China?” a former trainee posed to the founder and president of CURE, Dr. Newton. This inquiry led to a meeting with China 's leading pediatrician, Prof. Hu Ya Mei, President of Beijing Children's Hospital. She elaborated on the dismal cure rate of childhood cancer in China and pleaded for assistance. After a series of conferences that consisted primarily of lectures by world experts to the leaders of treatment of childhood cancers in China, Drs. Newton and Haase, CURE Vice-President, concluded that lectures alone lacked the clout businesses and government could bring to improving cure rates of Chinese children with cancer. This effort succeeded in establishing a trust relationship with their medical leaders and led to the formation of CURE.
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It was determined that action needed to be taken and CURE took up the challenge.
