The money and the support pediatric cancer gets from the government is pretty limited compared to adult cancers. That’s why one former cancer patient has been raising money for a nonprofit organization that made her hospital stays better.
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Dylan Probe was only nine years old when she got Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer that required chemo, a lower limb amputation, then chemo again. “Dylan is our why,” Brittany Franklin, the founder and CEO of Sky High said. “Sky High is now global. We’re working with Texas Children’s all the way in sub-Saharan Africa and so with 400,000 children diagnosed every year, what better way than to have those survivors come back to be a part of our family and our mission and say, ‘This is why you should give to an organization like Sky High, their research dollars and their comfort programs either help me during my journey... or save my life.
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