Sarcoma Awareness Month: Get ready for 2022 Wendy Walk.
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July is Sarcoma and Bone Cancer Awareness Month, which is also an opportunity to highlight an important upcoming event that helps advance cell and gene therapies for sarcoma.
Wendy Walk will be held Sept. 18 in Santa Monica, CA. You can sign up for the event here. The event launched more than a decade ago after Wendy, the event’s namesake, was diagnosed with sarcoma. This type of cancer begins in the bones and soft (connective) tissues. There are 12,000 new cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year.
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Wendy passed away in 2013 from her sarcoma, but she was able to help her family launch the annual Wendy Walk event to raise money for crucial sarcoma research. Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy is one of the beneficiaries of this annual fundraiser.
One of ACGT’s Research Fellows is Stephen Gottschalk, MD, of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He received grant funding from ACGT in 2019 to investigate the potential of cell and gene therapy for sarcoma. His work involves finding two protein targets on sarcoma tumors to strengthen the effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapy against this cancer. The money raised from Wendy Walk helped ACGT fund Dr. Gottschalk’s promising research.
For more information about this event and the important work of this non-profit organization, please visit the Wendy Walk website. We hope you will participate in this important fundraiser to help people affected by this type of cancer.
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