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Hope for Taly Fund
A daughter’s Journey to find a cure
The Hope for Taly fund is named after my mother, Taly Weiss, who lost her battle to pancreatic cancer June 10th 2010. Hope for Taly collects charitable donations that will fund Pancreatic Cancer Canada. This is Canada’s only foundation for fighting pancreatic cancer. This foundation is also very close to my heart because my mother was keeping in touch with Betty Aldridge, who co-founded the foundation after her husband, Dick Aldridge, passed away from the disease. Pancreatic Cancer Canada was founded a mere 4 years ago, and needs all the support and donations possible to grow as big as Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, its American counterpart. Here are two support forms signed by Betty Aldridge and Laurie Ellies, the co-chairs of Pancreatic Cancer Canada, to show that we are working in conjunction with each other.
HFT Letter of Support HFT Silent Auction Form
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To champion early detection research
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To educate and create awareness about pancreatic cancer
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To raise funds through various fundraisers and charitable donations to support leading edge research
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To partner with Princess Margaret hospital and share the latest information and updates
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To provide support and information resources to patients and their families
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To increase federal and private funding in order to advance research programs
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To share knowledge and increase effectiveness in Canada through their website and various mediums such as print and radio
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To increase their network of volunteers and donors nationally, and set up chapters throughout Canada.
Founded in 2006, this is a not-for-profit organization that has already provided over $300,000 to support early detection studies at Princess Margaret Hospital. There is a consortium of major hospitals involved in this research that is focused on developing new early detection and screening methods and discovering a molecular and/or genetic marker to aid in the earlier diagnosis and screening of pancreatic cancer (such as now exists, for example, with prostate cancer).It is because of Pancreatic Cancer Canada that MP Helena Guergis delivered a statement in the House of Commons advocating Pancreatic Cancer Awareness. As a result, November is now recognized as National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
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How your money will be spent
The Pancreatic Cancer Canada Committee
Dick Aldridge Pancreatic Cancer Foundation
Dick Aldrige
Endorsement letters received
Scientific Advisory Board
Pancreatic Cancer Canada
Pancreatic cancer research is where breast cancer research was in the 1930′s. This is because it is wildly underfunded. An estimated 66 million US dollars was spent on pancreatic cancer research in 2005 of the National Cancer Institutes’ (NCI) cancer research budget. This is just a mere 2% of the NCI’s 4.825 billion US dollar cancer research budget for 2009.
Why?
There is a 99% mortality rate, the highest of any cancer, because by the time the cancer is diagnosed, it is usually too late for a promising outcome as the cancer has metastasized and spread to surrounding organs. Options for treatment are minimal at this stage. 75% of patients die within one year of their diagnosis. Therefore, part of the reason pancreatic cancer research remains underfunded is because there are not a lot of survivors who are strong enough to benefit from clinical trials due to the aggressive progression of the disease. Even worse, most patients simply cannot afford the private clinic treatments that breast cancer patients are eligible to receive due to succesful funding efforts. I can’t begin to explain my family’s frustration of having to pay thousands of dollars, per month, for my mother’s necessary chemo treatments breast cancer patients receive for free. Cancer is cancer right? This is why funding for early screening is so necessary. If caught early, the cancer is treatable, survival rates for 5 years increase from 5% – 20% as the cancer is localized and can be removed. Patients are in better health to receive treatments, and the research from their treatments can be used to find a cure.
A list of charities already donated to in Taly’s name.
- The Association for the Soldiers of Israel
from Alice Weiner - The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
from Howard Sheldon - Baycrest Programs for Seniors
from Rabbi Joseph Holtzberg and Evie Walton - Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind
from Tanya, Sue, and Orin Krivel - Yad Sarah
from Joseph Heller - Hazon Yeshaya
from Beverly Harris
Thank you all for your thoughtful donations!
