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Become an Osteosarcoma Advocate

This Movement Needs Everyone

Osteosarcoma is a bone cancer that targets children and young adults. The available treatments are often toxic and ineffective, and research on the disease is sorely underfunded. The Osteosarcoma Institute is a collective of physicians, researchers, and advocates on a mission to improve treatment options and survival rates. Will you join us by raising your voice within your circle of influence?

Osteosarcoma Statistics

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Osteosarcoma is the most common childhood bone cancer.

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No new treatments have been approved for osteosarcoma patients in 40 years.

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1 in 3 children with osteosarcoma will not survive.

How You Can Help

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In honor of your birthday, encourage your friends to give towards osteosarcoma science. Making a fundraiser on Facebook is easy, and it makes a big difference.
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Sharing your personal experience with osteosarcoma as a patient, survivor, family member or friend helps us secure grant funding to find new treatments.
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Your contributions fund breakthrough clinical trials and science to identify new treatments and ultimately a cure for osteosarcoma.
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What We Do

Our Strategy

Globally estimated, there are over 26,000 new cases of osteosarcoma diagnosed each year, with 1,000 being diagnosed in the United States, but treatment options haven’t advanced in 40 years. To find a cure for osteosarcoma, we have to collaborate, innovate, and translate around the most promising science.

Our Mission

The mission of the Osteosarcoma Institute is to dramatically increase treatment options and survival rates in osteosarcoma patients through identifying and funding the most promising and breakthrough osteosarcoma clinical trials and science.

Start Your Own Partnering for Progress Fund

To take a bigger step in osteosarcoma advocacy, you can create your own osteosarcoma science fund with our support and infrastructure. Through a Partnering for Progress fund, we help you determine a research study or trial to support, and we handle many of the logistics, allowing you to focus on reaching out to friends and family to make a difference for osteosarcoma patients everywhere. If you are interested in learning more about Partnering for Progress, please email giving@osinst.org and our Development Manager, Vanessa Peterson, will be in touch.

Lizzy’s Osteosarcoma Science Fund

In 2020, the Osteosarcoma Institute partnered with Lizzy’s Walk of Faith Foundation to establish Lizzy’s Osteosarcoma Science Fund at the OSI. Together, we have raised more than $100,000 (as of September 2022) in honor of Lizzy Wampler. Lizzy’s Fund is being applied towards a breakthrough liquid biopsy study selected by Lizzy’s parents and the founders of LWOF Foundation, Jennifer and John Wampler. This study is being conducted by Dr. Brian Crompton at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  

#TeamIzzy’s Osteosarcoma Science Fund

In 2021, the Osteosarcoma Institute joined forces with osteosarcoma patient, Izzy Martin, and her family to start a fund in her name. Together, we have raised more than $388,000 (as of January 2023), which will be applied to a breakthrough clinical trial or study in osteosarcoma this year. Izzy’s mom, Christine, shares, “Izzy’s wish is that one day, no child will have to go through what she did.”  

The Rally Foundation

The Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research partnered with the Osteosarcoma Institute to co-fund a Phase II Clinical Trial at MD Anderson Cancer Center. The Rally Foundation is dedicated to empowering volunteers to raise awareness and funds to find better treatments, and ultimately cures, for all pediatric cancers.  

Hartz Family Osteosarcoma Fund

In 2022, Ingrid and David Hartz established the Hartz Family Fund at the OSI in honor of their teenage son, Miles, who has been a patient for four years. The Hartz Fund has raised more than $131,000 (as of January 2023) for osteosarcoma research conducted by Dr. Richard Gorlick at MD Anderson Cancer Center. They are motivated to help support the most promising clinical trials and science to fight osteosarcoma. Support their fight by making a donation to their fund today.  
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Our Impact

Funding, removing obstacles, raising awareness & working together. The Osteosarcoma Institute funds breakthrough clinical trials and science to identify new treatments, and ultimately a cure for osteosarcoma.

$2,901,411

to Translational Studies

$1,000,000

to Clinical Trials

$900,000

to Correlative Science

$346,402

to Discretionary Grants

Read Survivor Stories

Osteosarcoma Diagnosis Brings New Perspective on Life

When a cancer diagnosis upended his life, Talgat shifted his perspective to make the most out of life, living each day to the fullest.

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Finding the Best Life-Saving Cancer Care for Their Daughter

Trusting their gut helped Jessica and Stephen Alwan get the life-saving care their daughter desperately needed.

LYDIA’S STORY
Suresh Madheswaran and his wife Yuvarani
Multiple Cancer Diagnoses Spark a Career in Cancer Research

When Suresh Madheswaran, PhD, was diagnosed with multiple cancers, he took it on himself to advance the research.

SURESH’S STORY

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The Osteosarcoma Institute’s mission is to dramatically increase treatment options and survival rates in osteosarcoma patients through identifying and funding the most promising and breakthrough osteosarcoma clinical trials and science.