Ceremony Held to Recognize September 13th as Childhood Cancer Awareness Day
UNC and Rock Against Cancer (RAC), a local nonprofit that funds music therapy for pediatric cancer patients, presented Governor Perdue’s Special Proclamationdeclaring September 13th Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in a ceremony at the N.C. Children’s Hospital.
Deputy Secretary for Health Services Michael Watson joined cancer survivor Tucker Petty; UNC Pediatrics Chair and N.C. Children’s Hospital Physician-in-Chief Alan Stiles, MD; and UNC Pediatric Oncology Chief, Stuart Gold, MD to mark the occasion.
Petty, currently a UNC student, is a brain cancer survivor treated by Dr. Gold who worked as a summer intern with RAC through the APPLES service learning program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Petty spent the summer advocating for federal funding for research into childhood cancers.
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Petty spoke a few words at the ceremony. |
L-R: Michael Watson; Chase Jones, a cancer survivor and member of the UNC Baseball team, who persuaded all of his teammates to shave their heads to raise money for research at UNC Lineberger; Tucker Petty; Gabriel Titus, a leukemia survivor and student at C.E. Jordan High School in Durham; Dr. Gold; and Dr. Stiles. |
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Watson presented Dr. Gold with a plaque commemorating the proclamation. |
Attendees gathered to learn more about childhood cancers and what they can do to help. |
