Casey Liss
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I also particularly liked Australia's, and I'll leave that as an exercise for the listeners.
I also particularly liked Australia's, and I'll leave that as an exercise for the listeners.
I am traveling tomorrow. And where am I going? I am going to Memphis, Tennessee. And why am I doing it? Because September is National Childhood Care, maybe International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. And this coming Friday... If possible, I will put a link in the show notes.
I am traveling tomorrow. And where am I going? I am going to Memphis, Tennessee. And why am I doing it? Because September is National Childhood Care, maybe International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. And this coming Friday... If possible, I will put a link in the show notes.
It may not be there when this episode is released, but I will do my best to put a link in the show notes to a YouTube video that will be premiering on Friday. Well, it'll be live on Friday. And so I'm going to Memphis to St. Jude to help raise money to help prevent and stop childhood cancer. I'm going to be participating in the Relay Podcast-a-thon. It'll be myself, Mike Hurley, Stephen Hackett.
It may not be there when this episode is released, but I will do my best to put a link in the show notes to a YouTube video that will be premiering on Friday. Well, it'll be live on Friday. And so I'm going to Memphis to St. Jude to help raise money to help prevent and stop childhood cancer. I'm going to be participating in the Relay Podcast-a-thon. It'll be myself, Mike Hurley, Stephen Hackett.
Kathy Campbell, Jason Snell, and we're all going to be on YouTube Live for 12 hours starting at noon on this coming Friday. This coming Friday would be the 20th from noon until midnight Eastern time. And so you can tune in, you can drop in and out. I'd love it for you to watch all of it, but I mean, that's a long time. So drop in and out as you can. It should be really fun.
Kathy Campbell, Jason Snell, and we're all going to be on YouTube Live for 12 hours starting at noon on this coming Friday. This coming Friday would be the 20th from noon until midnight Eastern time. And so you can tune in, you can drop in and out. I'd love it for you to watch all of it, but I mean, that's a long time. So drop in and out as you can. It should be really fun.
I've never been there for it before. I've watched them, but I've never been there. So it should be a very fun time and I'm super duper excited and we're hoping to raise some money. So hey, Here's the thing. For the fifth year in a row, Relay is trying to come together to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Since 2019, we have raised well over $3 million. That is awesome.
I've never been there for it before. I've watched them, but I've never been there. So it should be a very fun time and I'm super duper excited and we're hoping to raise some money. So hey, Here's the thing. For the fifth year in a row, Relay is trying to come together to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Since 2019, we have raised well over $3 million. That is awesome.
This ad copy is just a couple of weeks old, and it said over $2.2 million. Oh, no, baby. We're over $3 million, and comfortably so. And that's super awesome. So here's the thing. It's estimated that more than 400,000 children worldwide develop cancer each year, and nearly half of them are never diagnosed. In the U.S. alone, more than four out of five children can survive cancer.
This ad copy is just a couple of weeks old, and it said over $2.2 million. Oh, no, baby. We're over $3 million, and comfortably so. And that's super awesome. So here's the thing. It's estimated that more than 400,000 children worldwide develop cancer each year, and nearly half of them are never diagnosed. In the U.S. alone, more than four out of five children can survive cancer.
But in many developing countries, that statistic is reversed, and fewer than one out of five children diagnosed with cancer will live. And I speak for all of us here at ATP in saying, that sucks. We don't like that. So... Here's the thing. The most significant predictor of whether a child will survive cancer is where that child lives. And so starting in 2018, St.
But in many developing countries, that statistic is reversed, and fewer than one out of five children diagnosed with cancer will live. And I speak for all of us here at ATP in saying, that sucks. We don't like that. So... Here's the thing. The most significant predictor of whether a child will survive cancer is where that child lives. And so starting in 2018, St.
Jude became the first and only World Health Organization collaborating center for childhood cancer. And so the goal of this, of the WHO, the World Health Organization Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, is to raise the survival rate of six common childhood cancers to 60% by 2030. And man, that time is approaching. Ask Apple, too. So in 2021... St.
Jude became the first and only World Health Organization collaborating center for childhood cancer. And so the goal of this, of the WHO, the World Health Organization Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, is to raise the survival rate of six common childhood cancers to 60% by 2030. And man, that time is approaching. Ask Apple, too. So in 2021... St.
Jude and the WHO launched this global platform for access to childhood cancer medicines. It aims to provide free chemotherapy medicines for the next few years to as many as 120,000 children around the world with cancer. And St. Jude is currently piloting that.
Jude and the WHO launched this global platform for access to childhood cancer medicines. It aims to provide free chemotherapy medicines for the next few years to as many as 120,000 children around the world with cancer. And St. Jude is currently piloting that.
And in this past April, they met with representatives from the program's first few countries to figure out the logistical details of how the process would work to get the medicines from ports of entry to hospitals. You can read a whole bunch more about this at St. Jude's website. But here's the thing. How do they do all that? They do that because people like you and me give them money.
And in this past April, they met with representatives from the program's first few countries to figure out the logistical details of how the process would work to get the medicines from ports of entry to hospitals. You can read a whole bunch more about this at St. Jude's website. But here's the thing. How do they do all that? They do that because people like you and me give them money.