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Here's a quiz: What percent of federal research money goes to pediatric cancer? Surprisingly, only 4%. And how much federal research funding goes to cancers that strike teens and young adults? Almost none. 

The beautiful young woman wearing a hat in the photograph above is battling one of these cancers. It's rare, it can be deadly and it has an almost unpronounceable name: fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma.  Fortunately, the Rockefeller University scientists gathered around her are all working on her behalf. They're dedicated to researching and fighting her cancer. These scientists have discovered that fibrolamellar is caused by a single change in the patient's DNA, and every single fibrolamellar patient has it. This makes it an excellent model for understanding how cancer develops as well as a powerful system for testing the efficacy of certain cancer drugs..

The young woman in the hat desperately needs the help of these Rockefeller University scientists. 
But they need your help.  Without support from people like you, their potentially lifesaving fibrolamellar research will be stalled. Critical projects are at risk.

So please: Join the battle. Contribute to the Fight Fibrolamellar initiative. Help these Rockefeller University investigators in their search for diagnostics and drugs to treat fibrolamellar patients and advance all cancer research.

Here are three projects that need your support right now:

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Fund a Blood Test for Fibrolamellar

Help develop the first blood test for fibrolamellar. This critically needed test will help with detecting fibrolamellar early, while it's most treatable; determining if experimental treatments are working; and monitoring patients for recurrences of the disease.
Fund the Fibrolamellar Blood Test!
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Fund a Test for Drugs that Can Block Fibrolamellar

Help screen for drugs to block this disease. Your donation will help pay for a battery of screenings to find drugs that can block fibrolamellar cells from growing.
Fund the Fibrolamellar Drug Screening!
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Fund the Fibrolamellar Tissue Repository

Funds are needed to help collect and process fibrolamellar tissue samples and blood samples, the critical building blocks of our fibrolamellar research.
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Fund the Fibrolamellar Tissue Repository!

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Others are saying about this work:

Frances Collins, Director of the NIH, in his testimony to Congress on April, 2015: "[Dr. Simon's work] is the kind of scientific success we want to see replicated over and over, and with your help, the time is now to celebrate such breakthroughs."
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President Barack Obama: "I don't know if folks are aware of [the fibrolamellar] story, but this young lady [a Simon lab researcher] is remarkable... She represents the incredible talent and energy and possibility of our young people, and so I'm so proud of her."
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