[Q]Eight year old girl battling with cancer aims to raise $1m for cancer research by selling lemonade
12 Jun 2004
Alexandra Scott is eight years old, she is battling against malignant tumours, she aims to raise $1m for cancer by selling lemonade. She started her quest four years ago and managed to sell $2,000 worth of lemonade in one day. Her quest has snowballed as friends and volunteers joined in.
Alexandra has raised more than $200,000. She managed to sell over $15,000 worth just from her home, in Philadelphia, last year.
Alexandra?s mother, Liz, says that her daughter?s quest for raising money for cancer research has helped her keep going.
Every state in the USA, all fifty of them, has an Alex Lemonade Stand. According to Alexandra?s dad, Jay, there could be up to 1,000 stands eventually.
Alexandra has neuroblastoma, it was diagnosed when she was one-year-old. Her chances of surviving are about 40%. About 700 kids get neuroblastoma in the USA each year. [/Q]
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=9443
My wife is a survivor of this type of cancer. She had a doctor, that miraculously found the cancer when she was an infant, at a time, when the survival rate for this cancer was practically nill because they were not able to diagnos it early enough.
This is really awesome that she is doing this.!!!!! My check is in the mail.
12 Jun 2004
Alexandra Scott is eight years old, she is battling against malignant tumours, she aims to raise $1m for cancer by selling lemonade. She started her quest four years ago and managed to sell $2,000 worth of lemonade in one day. Her quest has snowballed as friends and volunteers joined in.
Alexandra has raised more than $200,000. She managed to sell over $15,000 worth just from her home, in Philadelphia, last year.
Alexandra?s mother, Liz, says that her daughter?s quest for raising money for cancer research has helped her keep going.
Every state in the USA, all fifty of them, has an Alex Lemonade Stand. According to Alexandra?s dad, Jay, there could be up to 1,000 stands eventually.
Alexandra has neuroblastoma, it was diagnosed when she was one-year-old. Her chances of surviving are about 40%. About 700 kids get neuroblastoma in the USA each year. [/Q]
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=9443
My wife is a survivor of this type of cancer. She had a doctor, that miraculously found the cancer when she was an infant, at a time, when the survival rate for this cancer was practically nill because they were not able to diagnos it early enough.
This is really awesome that she is doing this.!!!!! My check is in the mail.