The Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (CAN)

There is a new blog on the block! The Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (CAN) is a group that is meeting monthly to prepare for September's Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and it now has a blog: http://www.seattlechildrenscan.blogspot.com/ . Please visit (and follow) to learn what is going on with the guilds that support cancer research. Everyone is welcome!



Katie's Comforters Guild is listed as one of the guilds that supports cancer research. The guild's connection to cancer research is 1) because Katie died of cancer, 2) our family and friends created the Katie Gerstenberger Endowment for Cancer Research in 2007 and 3) we began our work by sewing quilts for children in the cancer ward at Seattle Children's Hospital - and we've now expanded to blanket the entire hospital. As you know, Katie's endowment is for solid tumor research, to help find a cure for the kind of tumor she had (adrenocortical carcinoma). Since adrenocortical carcinoma is very rare, Katie's endowment supports ALL solid tumor research with the income that is generated by the principal in the endowment. At last count, the principal was just over $100,000.

We are thankful for the creation of the Seattle Children's Cancer Advocacy Network (CAN), and excited to see what lies ahead.

Information from National Institutes of Health on Adrenocortical Carcinoma

If you are interested in reading more about adrenocortical carcinomas, you can click on this link, which leads to an article on the topic. On the right side of the page is a listing of related articles. The National Institutes of Health website has information on a wide range of cancer topics. Click on this link if you want to search the NIH site.

Most pediatric cancers are viewed and treated differently than cancer of the same name in adults, because children respond differently to treatment.