This year is my seventh riding the PMC in support of neuroblastoma research at Dana Farber.

Please help me reach my goal with a donation today. Every dollar raised will go directly to life-saving cancer research at Dana Farber.

TeamBrent's monies are targeted towards fighting neuroblastoma, the childhood cancer that Brent battled. The PMC is amazing: $654 million dollars to fight cancer has meant significant advances. TeamBrent is just the tiniest part of that, yet we can see tangible progress in our fight. Over half of children with high risk neuroblastoma are cured today vs. the 20% when we started 15 years ago. We must get to 100%.

We have realized that neuroblastoma is caused by different mutations in different children and thus needs a personalized program. If a patient relapses, we test the tumor to identify specific abnormalities & make specific treatment recommendations based on the genes. Because of this, we have multiple studies going on so we can attack the disease in different ways. Prior years funds have helped launch the personalized program and all the work in progress, which has helped improve the cure rate. We have found ways to cure certain types of neuroblastoma. But we haven’t figured out all of them YET.

We ride for our Pedal Partner neuroblastoma survivors: Brady, Mason, Sean, Max, Maggie, Ian & Brent. These kids are Living Proof that Together We Make a Difference.