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Join our Dallas volunteers for dinner and a presentation by the co-founder of Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357. Proceeds from this event will be dedicated to the Hospital’s expansion project, click here.

Date: Saturday April 7, 2012

Venue: Four Seasons Resort and Club, Las Colinas East/West hall, Irving Texas (4150 N. MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, Texas. Tel: 972-717-0700)

6pm: Reception at the Atrium

7pm: Dinner and main event

Keynote speaker: Dr. Sherif Abo El Naga, VP Academic Affairs, Research and Outreach

Tickets: $50

Due to limited seating we are no longer selling tickets on line. To purchase a ticket, please contact El Sayed Hassan at:
tel: (972)743-7700
email Mr. Hassan at hassan358@tx.rr.com

For rooms reservations for out of town guests refer to ECN’s discounted rate and call 972-717-0700

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Boston University Fundraiser Event this Sunday!

If you are a Boston University or Boston-area student, make sure to purchase tickets for a Hospital 57357 fundraiser show. Boston University is hosting Ahmed Ahmed for a live comedy tour this Sunday, March 4^th, 2012 at 7pm at Boston University in the George Sherman Union. Tickets are $10 and all proceeds will benefit Hospital 57357 egyclub@bu.edu. Feel free to share the event with your friends on Facebook here and you share the featured flier by making copies and posting it around or emailing it to your friends.

57357 University Fundraising Challenge

Attention college students! If you haven’t already registered your campus for the University Fundraising Challenge, it’s not too late! For registration and details go to:

www.EgyptCancerNetwork.kintera.org/BUChallenge/

The Boston University Egyptian Club is challenging universities in a fundraising competition from now through April 30^th, 2012. Our goal is to raise $250,000 so that we are able to provide treatment to more children with cancer in Hospital 57357. Right now, because of the large number of children applicants for cancer treatment, we are only able to service 1 in 4 Egyptian children. Are you up to the challenge to help us raise money so we can provide treatment to more children? Prizes include up to five round trip tickets to Cairo and a four star hotel included!

Please join us in this challenge. With your help, we can reach out to the 5,758 universities based in the USA to help us reach our goal. We believe in the power of numbers, and with your support we can achieve this goal. A great example of students’ initiative to fundraise for children with cancer in Hospital 57357, is when 25 million Egyptian students each donated 20 cents and together fundraised $5 Million dollars in a single day. We can do it too! Join us in this challenge so we can make sure every child with cancer in Hospital 57357 can access quality care.

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The Egyptian Gazette last Friday featured an article stating the health risks of smoking to people and specifically, children. The article cited Dr. Hassan Tawfiq, head of the Health Insurance Authority in Benha, as saying that smoking causes several fatal diseases in addition to lung cancer.

Additionally, Laila Karam Eddin, Professor of Psychology at the Higher Institute for Childhood Studies, Ain Shams University, stated in the article that: “In research in developed countries, animals have been exposed to the nicotine and other harmful substances in tobacco. After some time, they contract cancer and other fatal diseases.”

Laila warned that smoking has negative effects on children because children seek to imitate their parents. Laila says, “children look up to their mothers and fathers. When they see one or both of them smoking, they want to copy them and it soon becomes a habit then an addiction…Smoking is also very bad for unborn children. Pregnant women should avoid sitting beside smokers and husbands who smoke should be aware of this,” she stresses.”

The next time you or someone decides to smoke a cigarette, be sure to remember the fatal consequences of smoking for the smoker, children, and those around you inhaling second hand smoke.

Tagged with: Cancer, Children, cigarettes, Egypt, second hand smoke, smoking
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A joint research study on pediatric brain tumors between Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 and Harvard Medical School affiliated Dana-Farber Children’s Hospital Cancer Center produced significant results. Scientists were able to identify mutations in BRAF, a major signaling molecule, and one of the most common abnormalities identified in pediatric low-grade gliomas. This project was conducted by combining samples from around the world. The findings were published in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (vol.13, issue 6) in November 2011, and will be instrumental in improving patients’ outcomes for these types of brain tumors in children.

Two Egyptian physicians from Hospital 57357, Dr. Hala Taha and Dr. Madiha Mahmoud, participated in the study designed to identify abnormalities in the BRAF gene and its prevalence in Egyptian children with brain tumors. Their findings also identified some unique differences between patient samples from North America and further research is ongoing on these samples.

The impact of these findings are significant:

1. They permit the potential development of personalized treatment protocols, such as targeting therapies, to block the action of the mutating gene. Targeting therapies, unlike conventional therapies, can reduce the side effects of treatment while improving survival rates.

2. The shift from traditional tumor markers as a sole diagnostic indicator to new and more accurate molecular diagnostic methods will allow for improved diagnosis.

Thanks to the multi-disciplinary collaboration and an active research department instituted in 2009, Hospital 57357, which opened its doors only five years ago, now has 21 published research papers, including some in renowned journals such as the “European J. of Nuclear Medicine”, the “ Childs Nerv Syst,” and the “Journal of NCI.“

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Our gorgeous daughter Merna Madkour who suffered a rare type of bone cancer
Merna was initially admitted to Hospital 57357 , as people in Egypt refer to Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 . Treatment at Hospital 57357 is free and the number of spaces is limited. Understanding the tremendous needs for cancer treatment of many poor Egyptian kids, her mother generously offered to move Merna to a private hospital in order to allow families with fewer financial means access to Hospital 57357 .

While she was still undergoing treatment at the other hospital, her school began organizing fundraising events for Hospital 57357. For months, Merna saved every dollar she received from her allowance and holiday gifts, vowing to donate everything to Hospital 57357 as soon as she felt better. Merna was too sick to join her classmates in their fieldtrips to the hospital to donate the money they collected. Undeterred, she continued saving in hopes of one day making her donation in person. She once asked her mother “I am planning to donate all the money I saved, but can I please keep 10% to buy something nice to wear for the visit?” Unfortunately, destiny had other plans for Merna, she passed away on December 14th of last year before she could make the visit she was so eagerly planning. Following her death, her mother and I visited Hospital 57357 to donate her savings. During that visit, we pledged in Merna’s memory, to donate the same amount on a monthly basis for the rest of our lives so one day, parents who face a similar situation can tell a different ending to their story. An ending where their child is cured from this terrible disease, and she is finally able to visit Hospital 57357 to donate her savings so other children with cancer can survive.

In loving memory of our princess and angel,

Tarek Madkour

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Ten years ago, Egyptian students donated “Just One Pound” to lay the foundation for a fully charitable children’s cancer hospital. Collectively, they raised 23 million Egyptian Pounds ($3.8M) in a single day. As a result, Cairo now has the world’s largest and busiest pediatric cancer hospital, The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357.

The spirit of change these students created, is now part of the hospital’s culture as it continues to move the nation forward in patient care, philanthropy, research, education, and even environment. Their survival rates are double the Egyptian average and almost on par with the U.S.

Since opening their doors in 2007, the hospital has been at full capacity, able to serve only one in four children in need.

Students at Boston University, in solidarity with the Egyptian youth, launch today a challenge to all college campuses throughout the U.S. Their goal is to raise $250,000 to lay the foundation of a $10 million dollar expansion of The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357. To get involved with this campus competition, click here.

At Egypt Cancer Network, our slogan is “Strength in Unity.” We in the U.S. have been inspired by the seeds of change we saw planted a year ago today on this anniversary of their revolution. By supporting grass roots initiatives like Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357, we are sending a clear message that we believe in the future of Egypt. Egypt Cancer Network USA is committed to expanding this hospital so it can treat the majority of Egyptian children with cancer… a gift of life and solidarity.

George Bernard Shaw once said “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”

We salute all the unreasonable people in Egypt that made Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 a reality!

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www.EgyptCancerNetwork.Kintera.org/BUChallenge

On the one year anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, the Boston University Egyptian Club is challenging universities around the U.S.A in a competition to raise money for The Children’s Cancer Hospital in Egypt! This hospital, also known as 57357, is the largest and busiest pediatric cancer hospital in the world and is supported solely by private donations. It opened its doors in 2007 and, immediately, was at full capacity. In only five years, the survival rate for children with cancer has tripled that of other Egyptian hospitals, and is almost on par with the U.S.A. On top of that, the patients’ families are supported so they do not have to pay a single cent for the treatment of their children suffering from cancer.

Because of the large number of children applicants for cancer treatment, the hospital is only able to service 1 in 4 Egyptian children in need. The goal is to help double that capacity by 2015. Even though the hospital has been making unprecedented progress, it is at risk of losing the land granted to it by the government if it does not expand to accommodate more patients. So, we are going to raise the funds to get the design process completed and as a result, save the hospital and more children! That’s a $250,000 task. Are you up for it?

The Challenge

The terms of the challenge are simple: we are trying to raise $250,000 throughout the U.S.A

Prizes

Each prize is a trip to Cairo with airfare and hotel included. A prize will be issued each time the total collected donations reach $10,000 increments. Recipients of prizes will be “democratically” designated by the team captain of the winning team at each collective $10,000 benchmark. Up to a total of five prizes will be distributed.

Challenge Rules

Fundraising will start on January 25, 2012 and end on April 30, 2012.
All teams must be affiliated with a US-based University.
That’s it! Just have fun.

If you would like your university to participate, please click here.

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Every year Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 hosts hundreds of visitors.

Giulia, an Italian tourist, was simply passing by when the brilliance of the hospital’s architecture and gardens captured her attention. Her blog features pictures and descriptions of what was clearly a moving experience for her, click here.

It’s impossible to put into words what one feels when one tours the hospital and meets the patients. During a recent visit by Bob Bradley, Egypt’s National Soccer Coach, he refers to the “spirit inside this hospital.”

During this festive time of the year, we often speak of the “Holiday Spirit.” It’s a festive spirit, full of life, light, hope and humility. The same words we hear time and time again to describe Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, 57357.

“I can’t find the appropriate words to explain what my wife and I felt after we finished touring the hospital. I feel very humble and proud at the same time.”

— Mohamed Fakhry, Board Member, MIDO Intl S.A.E

“What I have learned about working with the people in Cairo is total humility. That we think that we are somehow at the pinnacle of the system; yet people in Egypt get up and do things with fewer resources and fewer promises, and fewer guarantees, day after day after day.”

— Dr. Leslie Lehman, Director of the Stem Cell Transplant Program,
Harvard’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Egypt Cancer Network welcomes you to visit the hospital and meet the lives you are helping to save. For those of you stateside this holiday season, take a virtual tour through the eyes and stories of others who have been touched by the spirit of CCHE, click here.

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Sparkling stars hold our gaze, they both inspire us and illuminate a path for us to follow. Last month, a number of stars descended on Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357. All dedicated their time, financial and intellectual resources as well as enthusiasm, ideas and ongoing support to help the true Rock Stars, the patients at Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357.

Kuwaiti Ambassador Rashid Al Hammad and Media figure Aisha Al Yahie
World renowned Harvard pediatric physician specialists from Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston
The Spouse of the Prime Minister of First Turkey, Mrs. Emine Erdo?an, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Ambassador
Women leaders representing the Asian Embassies in Egypt (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Manila, Philippines, Brunei) led by the Ambassador of Thailand’s wife, Mrs. Jittima Manityhul.
Bob Bradley, manager of the Egypt national football team.
Zamalek Soccer Team

Such stardom brings awareness of the good work being done at Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357. The Hospital has also become a source of inspiration for authors and filmmakers as it reaches the hearts and minds of the Egyptian people.

The recent Egyptian movie “Tek Tek Boom” by Mohammed Saad evokes Hospital 57357, depicting true stories about the hospital’s raid during the Revolution. It shares stories of how, in the absence of police, the local citizens banded together to protect the children, equipment and buildings. The hospital now stands as a reminder of the courage and magnanimity of Egyptians as the neighborhood stood firm next to the hospital staff in strength and unity.
In the Egyptian TV series “Khatem Soliman”, a father whose daughter is recently diagnosed with cancer expresses hope that will be admitted to one of the Private “health insurance” hospitals, but his friend is quick to advise him to go immediately to Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt 57357.
In the Egyptian TV series “Nour Mariam” someone asks the heroine what will she do with the huge money that she inherited. She responds saying that she wishes to build a great hospital like the CCHE 57357.
In the Egyptian movie “Shahir, Baheer, and Samir ” when Miss Egypt is asked what she will do with the prize money, she answers that she will give it all to Hospital 57357.

Tagged with: 57357, Bob Bradley, Cancer, cancer hospital, CCHE, Children, Children’s Hospital Boston, Dana Farber, Egypt, Egyptian, Hospital, Hospital 57357, national football team
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Have you ever wondered what 57357 stands for? They’re the last five digits of Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt’s two bank accounts. Lest you still doubt the power of #7… the hospital opened on 7/7/07. Numerology aside, 7 clearly has been a lucky number for CCHE as they have managed to rise to the standards of cancer outcomes on par with the U.S. in only five years. Can you imagine what accomplishments lie in store for them on their 7th anniversary!

Tagged with: 57357, Cancer, cancer hospital, CCHE, Children, Egypt, Hospital, lucky number
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The Vision

To be the unique, worldwide icon of change towards a cancer-free childhood.

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Mission Into Action

With passion, compassion and dedication, our full-time staff is treating the sick child and his family as if they were their own.

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Help make a difference in the lives of the world’s childhood cancer patients, survivors & their families.

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What We Do

Our mission is to facilitate the most innovative global solutions for cancer treatment, research, and education to ensure that all children AROUND THE WORLD will one day be CANCER FREE.

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Egypt Cancer Network 57357 and AFNCI (ECN), a U.S. based 501c3 non-profit helping to further cancer education, research, and care as well as medical infrastructure in Egypt.

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Our sponsored organizations were selected based on their impact in Egypt on cancer care, education, research and advocacy.

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What We're Doing

Hospital 57357 Expansion

The international architectural design firm Jonathan Bailey has been selected by CCHE to design the planned CCHE expansion. An American firm, Jonathan Bailey was chosen as it is renowned for its unique vision for healthcare facilities. Not only is Jonathan Bailey an expert in hospital design, but firm leaders also know current European and American benchmark standards for pediatrics, oncology and hospital design... MORE

Hospital 57357 Global Education and Training

ECN is in the process of negotiating a joint fellowship program between Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Cancer Hospital. ECN has been instrumental in developing the partnership between these institutions. ECN also established a medical advisory board to support the long-term sustainability of the curriculum... MORE

Patient Care and Medical Infrastructure

Both NCI and Hospital 57357 were in distress due to the threat of a severe national shortage of a vital drug given to its acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients. ALL is the most common malignancy diagnosed in children, representing nearly one third of all pediatric cancers. These patients number in the thousands and spend three years during their treatment period taking a daily dose of 50 to 75mg... MORE

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What We've Done

ECN plays major role in sponsoring 57357’s expansion into a Heath Sciences Campus

Renowned global architecture firm, RTKL, to design the campus Thanks to ECN’s firm belief in the worthiness and inevitability of this important expansion, the network initially agreed to fund the architectural design of 57357’s new Health and Sciences Campus... MORE

Egypt Cancer Network (ECN) Supports a Major 57357 and AFNCI Staff Learning and Development Program

57357’s Restructured Training Department Program to be launched end of October With a new title, “learning and development L&D “and a new slogan” we learn …we cure”, 57357’s training department is undergoing a major... MORE

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