Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

The PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (PCRF) was established in 1982 to improve the care, quality of life and survival rate of children with malignant diseases. The founders included parents, doctors, friends, and business and community leaders who joined forces to translate laboratory research into immediate treatment for children with cancer.

Since that time, PCRF’s dedicated volunteers have raised over $22 million for pediatric cancer research. The Foundation currently funds special studies at the PCRF Laboratory at Children’s Hospital of New York at Columbia University, City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. In addition, PCRF also supports the PCRF Research Consortium comprised of Children’s Hospital of New York, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Children’s Hospital of Orange County and Mattel Children’s Hospital at University of California, Los Angeles. In funding translational research at these medical facilities, PCRF ensures that laboratory findings are made available immediately to patients who benefit by receiving the best cancer care possible.

Research results are reported worldwide through major medical journals and at professional conferences. Information on successful, state-of-the-art treatments are made available by the PCRF Laboratory, as well as other investigators funded by PCRF, in presentations of their findings at both national and international scientific meetings and many scientific publications.

PCRF is an independent, nonprofit organization governed by a volunteer 24-member Board of Directors comprised of community and business leaders, and parents of oncology patients. The Foundation is privately supported by donations from individuals, charitable foundations and businesses, through special events throughout the year, and by PCRF product sales of their holiday/everyday card line designed by children with cancer. A dedicated group of volunteers donate their time and talents to ensure that over 80 percent of funds raised go directly into research.