CURE is dedicated to conquering childhood cancer through funding targeted research while supporting patients and their families.
About CURE
Our Mission
Our Vision
CURE believes that childhood cancer can be cured in our lifetime.
Our Core Values
Rooted in Our Mission
The children we serve are at the heart of everything we do. Their lives – fragile, resilient, and full of hope – drive our purpose and passion. Every action, every decision reflects our commitment to ensuring they not only have futures but bright and promising ones. We carry them with us, ensuring that CURE’s impact is felt by the families and communities we serve.
Relentless Pursuit of Better
We hold ourselves to the highest standards in all we do. Whether it’s rigorously selecting the most impactful research, providing exceptional support to families, or collaborating with each other and our community, we push beyond the expected. By relentlessly striving for excellence, we ensure that everyone we serve and work with experiences our unwavering commitment to doing our best.
Compassion Defines Us
Empathy fuels our work. Whether supporting a family in crisis or lifting up a colleague, we lead with care and understanding. We meet people where they are and approach every interaction with kindness, demonstrating that compassion is intrinsic to everything we do.
Trust Through Accountability
We build trust by being accountable—to each other, to the families we serve, and to our community. In this challenging work, we rely on one another to fulfill our commitments, knowing that our collective strength ensures we deliver on the promises made to those who depend on us. Trust is the foundation that empowers us to face tough challenges together and succeed.
Stronger Together
Collaboration is at our core. Every voice is valued, and every role is vital to our success. We work hand-in-hand with our community and each other to achieve more together than we ever could alone for those we serve.
Grounded in Humility
We approach each challenge with grace and humility, recognizing that our collective effort serves a purpose greater than ourselves. By embracing our vulnerabilities and strengths alike, we foster genuine connections. Authenticity defines our every interaction—we listen openly, speak truthfully, and act with integrity, honoring the dignity of the children and families we serve.
Our Core Values
Rooted in Our Mission
The children we serve are at the heart of everything we do. Their lives – fragile, resilient, and full of hope – drive our purpose and passion. Every action, every decision reflects our commitment to ensuring they not only have futures but bright and promising ones. We carry them with us, ensuring that CURE’s impact is felt by the families and communities we serve.
Relentless Pursuit of Better
We hold ourselves to the highest standards in all we do. Whether it’s rigorously selecting the most impactful research, providing exceptional support to families, or collaborating with each other and our community, we push beyond the expected. By relentlessly striving for excellence, we ensure that everyone we serve and work with experiences our unwavering commitment to doing our best.
Compassion Defines Us
Empathy fuels our work. Whether supporting a family in crisis or lifting up a colleague, we lead with care and understanding. We meet people where they are and approach every interaction with kindness, demonstrating that compassion is intrinsic to everything we do.
Trust Through Accountability
We build trust by being accountable—to each other, to the families we serve, and to our community. In this challenging work, we rely on one another to fulfill our commitments, knowing that our collective strength ensures we deliver on the promises made to those who depend on us. Trust is the foundation that empowers us to face tough challenges together and succeed.
Stronger Together
Collaboration is at our core. Every voice is valued, and every role is vital to our success. We work hand-in-hand with our community and each other to achieve more together than we ever could alone for those we serve.
Grounded in Humility
We approach each challenge with grace and humility, recognizing that our collective effort serves a purpose greater than ourselves. By embracing our vulnerabilities and strengths alike, we foster genuine connections. Authenticity defines our every interaction—we listen openly, speak truthfully, and act with integrity, honoring the dignity of the children and families we serve.
CURE Childhood Cancer
When CURE was founded in 1975, the survival rates for children diagnosed with cancer were very low. With focused and collaborative research, those rates have steadily risen to above 80%. However, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease for children, and studies show that more than 95% of childhood cancer survivors will have significant health issues by the time they are 45 years old.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established to spearhead the global fight against cancer and has been a driving force behind scientific progress in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. However, despite its achievements, children with cancer have been left behind in terms of research funding. As shocking as it may seem, only 5% of the NCI’s research budget is dedicated to childhood cancers, resulting in a lack of progress in developing effective treatments for children with cancer. As a result, children with cancer are often left with outdated treatment options that have not advanced at the same rate as those for adults. CURE is a leading pediatric cancer charity that exists to fill that gap.
CURE Childhood Cancer
When CURE was founded in 1975, the survival rates for children diagnosed with cancer were very low. With focused and collaborative research, those rates have steadily risen to above 80%. However, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease for children, and studies show that more than 95% of childhood cancer survivors will have significant health issues by the time they are 45 years old.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established to spearhead the global fight against cancer and has been a driving force behind scientific progress in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. However, despite its achievements, children with cancer have been left behind in terms of research funding. As shocking as it may seem, only 5% of the NCI’s research budget is dedicated to childhood cancers, resulting in a lack of progress in developing effective treatments for children with cancer. As a result, children with cancer are often left with outdated treatment options that have not advanced at the same rate as those for adults. CURE exists to fill that gap.
Serious Funding for Serious Research
Childhood cancer research is the key to unlocking breakthroughs that will save the lives of children diagnosed with cancer. Not only will research help children survive their diagnosis, but by developing safer and less toxic treatments, it will also help children who do survive to experience fewer harmful side effects and live their lives to the fullest. In the past twelve years, CURE has invested $45 million in innovative research at leading pediatric cancer research institutions across the nation.
Our research priorities are two-fold. First, we prioritize research that will lead to more effective treatments for children within two to three years. We also prioritize research aimed at solving recurrent and hard-to-treat cancers for which no effective treatment exists. We are a leader in advancing precision medicine, a treatment targeted at tumor-driving genes, which is yielding significant results for children with recurrent and hard-to-treat cancers.
Serious Funding for Serious Research
Research is the key to unlocking breakthroughs that will save the lives of children diagnosed with cancer. Not only will research help children survive their diagnosis, but by developing safer and less toxic treatments, it will also help children who do survive to experience fewer harmful side effects and live their lives to the fullest. In the past twelve years, CURE has invested $45 million in innovative research at leading pediatric cancer research institutions across the nation.
Our research priorities are two-fold. First, we prioritize research that will lead to more effective treatments for children within two to three years. We also prioritize research aimed at solving recurrent and hard-to-treat cancers for which no effective treatment exists. We are a leader in advancing precision medicine, a treatment targeted at tumor-driving genes, which is yielding significant results for children with recurrent and hard-to-treat cancers.
Until there is a cure, there’s CURE.
The second part of our mission is to support families devastated by a childhood cancer diagnosis through programs designed to meet a family’s emotional, practical, and financial needs quickly and appropriately. CURE is in the hospitals serving meals several days a week, we provide emergency financial support to ease the burden of families in the fight, and we offer professional counseling to patients and family members. We also offer bereavement support for families who must deal with unimaginable loss.
These are only a few of the ways we, as a pediatric cancer charity, serve patients and their families. CURE’s goal of being an ever-present help to families in crisis encompasses dozens of services designed to lighten the load of the families and make sure they know they aren’t alone. CURE’s unwavering support is available from diagnosis until we are no longer needed.
Until there is a cure, there’s CURE.
The second part of our mission is to support families devastated by a childhood cancer diagnosis through programs designed to meet a family’s emotional, practical, and financial needs quickly and appropriately. CURE is in the hospitals serving meals several days a week, we provide emergency financial support to ease the burden of families in the fight, and we offer professional counseling to patients and family members. We also offer bereavement support for families who must deal with unimaginable loss.
These are only a few of the ways we, as a pediatric cancer charity, serve patients and their families. CURE’s goal of being an ever-present help to families in crisis encompasses dozens of services designed to lighten the load of the families and make sure they know they aren’t alone. CURE’s unwavering support is available from diagnosis until we are no longer needed.
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