UAB: Comprehensive Cancer Center

On September 15, Hyundai Hope on Wheels visited the UAB's Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Children's Hospital to present a $100,000 Hope Grant, which will provide funding for the expansion of three childhood cancer programs: the UAB Pediatric Developmental Therapeutics Program, the UAB Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program, and the Hope and Cope Psychosocial Support Program.

To commemorate Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Hyundai Hope on Wheels is working to raise awareness of childhood cancer with national television commercials, materials in its dealerships and $6.8-million worth of “Hope Grants” to hospitals and nonprofit organizations across the country to help fight the disease. At the end of this year, Hope on Wheels will have donated more than $23 million to fight childhood cancer.

Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children 1 to 14 years of age.  Every day approximately 40 children, the equivalent of a school classroom, are diagnosed with cancer, which adds up to almost 15,000 new cases of childhood cancer diagnosed each year.

Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115!