Research projects financed by Zoé4life
Almost 300 children aged 18years old or younger are diagnosed with cancer every year in Switzerland. In Europe the number of new diagnoses per year is 35’000.
One child dies from cancer every week in Switzerland. Cancer is the first cause of death by disease in children.
Four out of five children will survive at least five years after diagnosis, but often with serious long term side effects due to treatment.
New research projects as well as new treatment protocols are being put in place in Switzerland as a result of Zoé4life’s support. Although considerable progress has been accomplished in the last 50 years in childhood cancer treatments, this is not the case for several forms of pediatric cancer.
Since 2013, Zoé4life has funded research projects in Switzerland and internationally for more than CHF 2,400,000.
Projects in Switzerland :
International Partnerships :
By working together with other non-profit organizations on an international level we’ll accelerate development of new treatments for children with cancer.
Zoé4life has joined a partnership under the leadership of Solving Kids Cancer UK and several other non-profit organizations in Europe and in North America in order to join forces to finance research projects together.
Together, we will succeed in Solving Kids Cancer!
Thanks to this partnership, we have funded the following projects :
The impact a childhood cancer diagnosis has on its victims and their families is impossible to measure. However, financial decisions regarding research are based on numbers.
Here are some facts about childhood cancer :
- The causes of most pediatric cancers remain a mystery and cannot be prevented.
- Childhood cancer does not discriminate, sparing no ethnic group, socio-economic class or geographic region.
- Today, about one in 600 young adults is a childhood cancer survivor
- The average age of death for a child with cancer is 8, causing a childhood cancer victim to lose 69 years of expected life years; a significant loss of productivity to society.
It is imperative to accelerate research into childhood cancer. Zoé4life works both in Switzerland and on an international level in order for research into new treatments for childhood cancer to accelerate. Our goal: Cure More and Cure Better
Zoé4life has established partnerships with the Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group, Solving Kids Cancer, Zürich’s Kinderspital, the CHUV Hospital in Lausanne and Seattle Children’s Hospital
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