September is Childhood
Cancer Awareness Month Your gift DOUBLES to help save kids’ lives!

Help Us Unlock $100,000 to Fight Childhood Cancer

Thanks to a generous matching gift from Hyundai Hope on Wheels, your donation during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month will be doubled, up to $100,000, to accelerate pediatric cancer research with life-saving potential. Every dollar you give will be matched to help the next child diagnosed … the child waiting for a cure … children who deserve to grow up cancer-free.

Please take advantage of this special opportunity to make twice the difference in the fight against cancer and bring hope to more young patients and their families!

Choose your gift now to make 2X the impact for children facing cancer:

Jeffrey Toretsky and Aykut Üren at a Hyundai Hope on Wheels event

Jeffrey Toretsky, M.D. (left), Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hyundai Hope on Wheels Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology, and Aykut Üren, M.D. (right), Professor, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Oncology

Give Today to Fuel Pediatric Cancer Research

One hundred percent of your donation today will directly support the innovative work of Georgetown Lombardi physician-scientists like Aykut Üren, M.D., and Jeffrey Toretsky, M.D. The pair recently co-authored a study that uncovered a new dual function for a well-known, cancer-related protein called ezrin. Their findings could open the door to new treatments that slow or prevent metastasis of osteosarcoma, the most common bone cancer in children and young adults.

Your gift today accelerates groundbreaking research for all types of pediatric cancer and saves kids’ lives.

Nearly 10,000 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in 2026, and more than 1,000 children will lose their lives to cancer.

The most common cancers in children are: