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143 28th St
Suite 4
San Francisco
California 94131
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Description: BeatSarcoma is a volunteer initiative, launched in 2007 by a sarcoma patient, to help increase awareness about sarcomas, raise funds for research and assist with survivorship issues.
We raise funds to sponsor specific research projects or patient initiatives.
a) We work closely with the medical community to select un-funded high impact projects.
b) Currently 100% of funds raised support sarcoma efforts . As we grow, we will be transparent about our expenses.
c) We fund programs hosted by leading non-profit research institutions.
d) We favor fundamental, translational and early clinical research as opposed to late clinical trials. The funding needs there are greater and the benefits far-reaching.

Mission:
Sarcoma is a form of cancer that arises in the connective tissues. It affects primarily children and young adults. They are hard to diagnose, hard to detect and hard to treat. Biopsy is the only diagnostic tool and surgery often the only curative treatment. Many sarcomas resist current cancer treatments, simply because they are little understood by researchers.

- 20% of childhood cancers are sarcomas. They affect also many young adults. Sarcoma destroys so many lives before they have had time to blossom.

- Sarcoma gets less than 1% of cancer research funds - this is not enough. Sarcoma research is years behind compared to that for other cancers.

This is the situation we would like to change - and reestablish a working cycle between basic research => transational research => clinical research (often funded by the industry). The middle link seems broken for sarcoma.
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woogler
09/02/09
great opportunity to just jump in and help. Nat and Heather were outstanding, easy going and there was plenty of things to do... more »
megjean
09/02/09
Great organization! I volunteered for one day at the Sarcoma Cup fundraiser. Great people. Nat was very easy going and organized... more »
mdarnaud
08/21/09
It is one thing to be hit by a nasty disease, it is another one to not know what the prognosis is and face a medical body that doesn't really know what to tell you! Nathalie faced it all with great strength and courage and extensively researched the little information available. She decided to help ... more »
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