CURE Childhood Cancer

About

CURE is a nonprofit organization with a mission to conquer childhood cancer through funding targeted research while supporting patients and their families. CURE invests more than $4.7 million each year into the most promising childhood cancer research, working to ensure children have the best chance to survive their cancer without sacrificing their future health and quality of life. Simultaneously, our team members meet families at the point of diagnosis and surround them with critical resources to help them navigate this journey. Through this holistic approach, we work tirelessly to provide for the emotional, physical, and financial needs of the children and families we serve.

CURE’s research program focuses our funding on research that is likely to get to the bedside within two to three years. Over the past 10 years, CURE has invested over $38 million in innovative research, with a focus on our top research priority: Precision Medicine. Since its initial launch, CURE has continued to invest $1.8 million annually to advance the Precision Medicine Program, supporting individualized gene sequencing for over 300 children from all over Georgia and the surrounding states with relapsed or refractory cancer and impacting the treatment of 85% of these children.

CURE’s family support programs address the most urgent needs of childhood cancer patients, meeting families at the point of diagnosis and surrounding them with critical resources to help them navigate this complex journey, including financial support for rental assistance, living expenses, medication costs, short-term lodging, travel, meals for patients receiving treatment and their families, counseling for all family members, and bereavement support for families of children that have been lost to cancer. More than 2,400 children and their families in Georgia and neighboring states benefit from our patient and family services each year. Many of those families live in Savannah, Coastal South Carolina, and South Georgia.