New Movie Creates Childhood Cancer Buzz

Earlier this week, families impacted by childhood cancer gathered at Reach the Day 2009 to meet with our Congressional leaders to request much needed funding for childhood cancer research. Their personal stories put a face to childhood cancer. Today, the big screen release of the new film “My Sister’s Keeper” spotlights one family’s journey with childhood cancer, creating awareness for this dreaded disease. Visit www.curesearch.org for more information about childhood cancer and facts about childhood cancer.

Reach the Day – A Great Success!

On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, the childhood cancer community, including families, patients, and friends travelled from 34 states into the heart of DC to raise their voices for all children with cancer and for those who no longer have a voice. The group of 470 registrants met at Capitol Hill for the Ninth Annual CureSearch Reach the Day event. They came to the nation’s capitol to advocate for increased federal funding for childhood cancer research and to raise public awareness for childhood cancer.


Highlights of the event included

• 240 visits with elected officials to shine a spotlight on childhood cancer issues to congress.
• Congressman Joe Sestak (PA) launched the House Pediatric cancer caucus along with Congressman Chris Van Hollen (MD) and Congressman Mike McCaul (TX).


• By the end of the day, more than 30 members of the House of Representatives joined this newly-formed caucus.


• House and Senate Resolutions were introduced to designate September 12th as Childhood Cancer Awareness Day.

CureSearch would like to thank all involved for their important contributions to a pivotal day in achieving our ultimate goal – conquering childhood cancer.

Learn more here.

Hope Street Kids joins CureSearch

To conquer childhood cancer, two leading pediatric cancer organizations, Hope Street Kids founded by former U.S. Congresswoman Deborah Pryce and Randy Walker and CureSearch [National Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF) and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG)] have joined forces under the umbrella of CureSearch. The announcement was made today at CureSearch’s Reach the Day event on Capitol Hill.

Read the full press release here.

Reach the Day Tweet Up

At Reach the Day, we want to “broadcast” the event for those not able to make the trip into DC. We’re going to provide updates on Twitter via the username @CureSearch. Tweeting will allow us to provide updates across the web quickly and easily to everyone “tuned in” via Twitter.

If you’re following along on Twitter at home, retweeting our tweets and tweeting “follow @CureSearch” suggestions during our tweet up will be a huge help to our cause.

We’re also hoping our attendees will Tweet from the event. We will then organize all of our tweets under the hashtag #ReachTheDay. This way, anyone on Twitter can see all Reach the Day-related tweets with a simple search. We will also try to have enough #ReachTheDay mentions that we’ll be one of the top 10 topics on Twitter, which will make us visible to every Twitter user online. This is a great opportunity to spread awareness for childhood cancer!