Partnering for Bone Focusing on Adolescents and
Tumor Research
Young Adults
CureSearch Children’s Oncology Group
(COG) is honored to be collaborating
CureSearch recognizes Afl ac as a leader and longtime
with the WWWW (QuadW) Foundation
corporate supporter in the fi ght against childhood cancer.
in Dallas, Texas to fund research efforts
The Afl ac Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer
in bone tumors. QuadW’s mission
Research Program is a national
is to provide support to people and
initiative to investigate why
organizations pursuing innovative ideas
adolescents and young adults
and opportunities in the areas of higher education, sarcoma
with cancer have not fared as well
research, personally transforming mission experiences,
as younger and older patients in
and general philanthropy. The QuadW Foundation, Inc.
improving cure rates and quality of life. Funding from Afl ac
was established in 2006 in memory of Willie Tichenor, who
helps investigators improve the outcome of cancer for this
died in 2006 of
group by increasing clinical trial enrollment, discovering
osteosarcoma at
the basic biologic differences of cancers in the age group,
age 19, to honor
delivering more effective and less toxic therapy and
his desire to make
optimizing the quality of survival.
positive changes
in the world
In June 2008, Afl ac was a corporate sponsor of our Reach
around him.
the Day advocacy event in Washington, DC. Families of
children touched by childhood cancer came to our nation’s
Through this
capitol to raise awareness and to make childhood cancer
project, the QuadW board members Mary Katherine
research a national priority.
QuadW Foundation
Vigness, Elizabeth Trieu, and Ross Vick with
provides resources to
Dr. Carolyn Compton, QuadW Scientifi c Thank you, Afl ac, for being a true partner in our mission to
allow the work of COG
Advisory Board member
conquer childhood cancer.
researchers to move faster and more easily, enabling their
discoveries to quickly impact the care of children.
The project facilitates investigators’ work by linking
outcomes information to tissue samples being used by
COG researchers.
What’s in our Wallet?
In addition, COG, along with the QuadW Foundation, the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the COG Biopathology
CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation is proud
Center in Columbus, Ohio, developed a web-enabled
of our Capital One GiveHope Platinum Debit MasterCard
proposal submission and review process to request use
featuring artwork by one of our Young Artists, Jacquelyn
of the osteosarcoma samples. The funding by QuadW
Wheeler. She has faced childhood cancer three times at
Foundation creates an opportunity to develop this web
age two, seven, and eleven, and has donated her work to
application as a mechanism for COG and non-COG
help create awareness and raise funds for childhood cancer
investigators and researchers to access COG osteosarcoma
research.
specimens, insuring the best scientifi c use for these limited
tissue samples. The development of this web application is
The CureSearch “GiveHope”
part of a larger effort by the COG to create a biostatistics
card is available through Cap
and annotation offi ce. Over the past year, this offi ce,
One Banks in New York, New
under the leadership of Dr. Chand Khanna, has laid the
Jersey, Texas, and Louisiana.
foundation for new opportunities in pediatric sarcoma
With each purchase, Capital
research. CureSearch is grateful to the board of the QuadW
One donates a percentage to
Foundation for its commitment to supporting infrastructure
CureSearch.
needs that facilitate innovative research.
Every day, CureSearch works to transform hope into life for
“As foundation board members who lost our dear son,
children with cancer. We salute Capital One for working with
brother and friend to osteosarcoma, we feel the urgency
us to “GiveHope” to children with cancer and their families.
to encourage and support research for this and similar rare
cancers. We have been very impressed with how COG
So when someone asks you “what’s in your wallet?,” show
has worked with us and many others to enable physicians
them your CureSearch GiveHope Platinum Debit MasterCard
and scientists to pursue solutions to the diffi cult problems
and tell them you’re helping to raise funds to support
involved,” stated Mac Tichenor, Executive Director of the
childhood cancer research.
QuadW Foundation, Inc.
CureSearch Annual Report 2009
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