March 29th, Lance Armstrong Foundation & Nevada Cancer Institute Educational Program

Rob Rudd Community Center

6 PM

details to follow

(YEAH they're coming back!) it's a free program for all in the area !

 

National Childhood Cancer Awarness Month

Please help us honor our children by participating in a writing campaign to attempt to get a stamp approved for childhood cancer.

Currently, there are stamps for breast and prostate cancer, diabetes, organ donation and hospice. Each year, the citizen's stamp advisory committee reviews stamp subjects that are submitted by the public. They have thousands that are suggested. They will only consider "events and themes of widespread national appeal and significance". It is quite possible that they do not know the widespread national significance of childhood cancer.

We are asking each of you - family members of children with cancer, childhood cancer patients, survivors, friends and care-givers to help us tell them that childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of children in our country, and that the number of kids being diagnosed with cancer is increasing.

Let us tell them that treatment can take up to two or three years.

Let us tell them that one in 900 young adults is a survivor of childhood cancer.

Let us tell them that childhood cancer is significant!

For more information visit the Committee to Establish a Childhood Cancer Awareness Stamp web site at www.kidscancerstamp.org

Please send a letter in support of a childhood cancer stamp to:

Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee
c/o Stamp Development U.S. Postal Service
475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Room 5670
Washington, D.C. 20260-2437

Hope is the belief that a positive outcome lies ahead.  Survivors who are struggling with life after cancer may find that hope helps them to remain positive during their survivorship.