My six-year-old grandson, Dray, was diagnosed with a golf-ball-size brain tumor in October of 2019. Weekly chemo treatments began in November 2019 and continued for 18 months (April 2021), with no measurable success. Dray became a St. Jude patient in June 2021, and began participating in phase 1 of a new clinical trial (chemo every day, 2x per day, for 2 years). Phase 1 concluded at the end of June 2023, and he was "chemo free" for the summer. Unfortunately, when the chemo wore off, scans revealed slight growth in the main tumor and potentially new metastatic spot in the brain. In October 2023, Dray resumed treatment as the first patient in phase 2 of this trial, (chemo every day, 2x per day, for 2 more years).
In honor of Dray, I am riding in the St. Jude Peoria to Memphis Ride 2024. St. Jude's lifesaving mission is to find cures for children battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases. I would like your help to reach and surpass my fundraising goal.
How your donation helps:
- Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live
- Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened in 1962. And we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
- St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands of children.
Thank you for your support! Together we can help St. Jude change the world!
