GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT ALSO HELPS SICK KIDS

Cookies for Kids' Cancer is a totally unique fundraiser. These limited-edition cookies are being baked by volunteers from the French Culinary Institute in NYC, using recipes provided by renowned cookbook author Sally Sampson. All supplies have been donated, so nearly 100% of your purchase price will go to the cause.

For every $30 box of cookies sold, $26 will go to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to fund development a new treatment for one of the deadliest pediatric cancers, neuroblastoma. Your purchase will make a real difference in the lives of many children and families!

WHY MUST PARENTS SELL COOKIES TO SAVE THEIR CHILDREN???

Childhood cancer is rare, and because the number of children diagnosed each year is so small, pharmaceutical companies do not fund research into new drugs for neuroblastoma and other pediatric cancers. Similarly, government funding for research is based on the number of diagnoses for each given type of cancer, so childhood cancers receive very little public funding.

Band of Parents has pledged to raise $2 to $3 million needed by Dr. Cheung and the team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to develop a humanized form of the 3F8 antibody that Jennifer Click of West Springfield, Virginia believes the treatment saved her daughter Carolyn by teaching her own immune system to fight neuroblastoma. Because the current version of the antibody is mouse-based, about half of the children with neuroblastoma (mostly kids under age 5) who undergo antibody treatment develop resistance to the mouse component before their immune system has been fully "trained" to fight the disease. For those children, when the cancer comes back, it is almost impossible to stop. This new antibody treatment offers these little ones their best chance at getting to grow up.

Two of the children with this cancer live in Northern Virginia. You may remember a story I covered back in the summer about seven fathers biking across the country to raise money to save their kids. The two Virginia fathers were the fathers of those two little girls, Grace and Taylor, who are in the battle for their lives. I can't think of a sweeter holiday gift than giving these cookies to help these children.