Why save children’s lives?

Helping CURE will save children’s lives. All children no matter where they are from suffer and die in the exact same way. Cancer is an indiscriminate killer of the world’s children. It requires a coordinated, compassionate, and indiscriminant effort to save the world’s children.

Why help in China?

That is where the need is greatest for the group of experts CURE has assembled in the field of pediatric (childhood) cancer. Today 95% of the children that get cancer in China will die. More than nine out of every 10 children endure agonizing pain before death. That is countless families that experience the grief of losing a child. Sadly, China has approximately 40 to 50 thousand new cases each year. Many more children go undiagnosed. In the United States the survival rate is 80%. When we help China improve its cure rate, we will start The Ripple Effect.

The Ripple Effect

When leading physicians in the United States learned of the drastic disparity between the cure rates of pediatric cancer in the U.S.A. (80% cured) and in China (5% cured) they knew they could save the lives of many innocent children. They also recognized that the challenge to improve China’s cure rate also provided a unique opportunity to learn more about pediatric cancer.

China has 300 million children and diagnoses 50,000 children with cancer each year. Because of limited data in China it is possible that as many as 50% of the cases go undiagnosed. Saving lives in China will provide the information necessary to continue to increase the cure rate in the United States and around the world.

Curing the last 20% of children in the United States is a difficult task because progress slows considerably as physicians reach higher cure rates. Helping China will provide meaningful data that will aid the international medical community in continuing to make significant advances.

The “Why not help China?” question that started it all:

“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.

We have a number of Sponsorship opportunities available. You can also Donate now by clicking here.

Contact us by email.

Data benefits everyone and can be shared world wide.

As CURE develops the twining relationships between hospitals for information sharing on the treatment of pediatric cancer, a Ripple Effect will demonstrate the success of this program. The world will benefit from this huge undertaking and the information it generates.

CURE is striving to save children’s lives. CURE does not want to save just American children or Chinese children, but all children.

The knowledge gained and shared by the international medical community from helping China and from being involved in the fight against pediatric cancer in China is priceless to all children and their families around the world. The amount of new information on beating cancer that will come from the successes and failures that CURE and its physicians will experience will be unprecedented and improve the cure rates for all children.