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The Taylor Matthews Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and funding pediatric cancer research. We fund cutting-edge, innovative research that reaches sick children now. It is our mission that children with cancer will live long, healthy, and productive lives.
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A mother’s dedication to a daughter’s wish.
A mother holds her daughter’s hand for a little while but her heart forever. —Anonymous
Taylor, your life was not only about what you accomplished, but also about what you left behind. Your boundless optimism at the bleakest moments, your concern for others even when you were at your worst, and your zest for life even as death neared taught me more about love than I thought there was to know.
We will continue to fight in your honor and will never falter in our commitment to you and to children with cancer everywhere. We are keeping your spirit, your thirst to make change, and your dedication to help others alive. While your life was tragically cut short, your mark on the world lives on in our family, in the organization, and in children who have and will win their battles against cancer thanks to you.
Just to think of you reminds of why what I do is so important. Thank you for a lifetime of love and showing us all what humanity really means. I will always have your heart.
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15
Feb
International Childhood cancer Day
Globally, it is estimated that there will be more than 413,000 cases of childhood cancer in 2020. 80% of the world’s children with cancer live in low to middle income countries
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22
Oct
The Creating Hope Act
The Creating Hope Act pediatric priority review voucher program has been wildly successful. It is critical that Congress reauthorize the program permanently so that children with serious
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02
Sep
September is childhood cancer awareness month…. honor our children
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30
Apr
Childhood Cancer Bullying
Nationwide, children with cancer are 60% more likely to be bullied than their healthy classmates. CAC2 is committed to supporting those who have been hurt or harmed, to treating
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15
Feb
Meet Taylor
Taylor was a 16-year-old ambitious designer and entrepreneur. Taylor was determined to live life to the fullest, and wanted to be known as “a kid with cancer,
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Research
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Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
In 2019, TMF funded a nationwide clinical trial for a drug to treat pediatric low-grade gliomas, a type of brain tumor. The drug targets unresectable tumors that
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Children’s Hospital at Columbia Medical University
From 2014 to present TMF has funded comprehensive genetic sequencing at Columbia University Medical Center that enables personalized treatments for individual patients
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Memorial Sloan Kettering
In 2014, TMF funded a study at Memorial Sloan Kettering for the use of a novel antibody to treat Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors
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The National Institute of Health
tay-bandz has funded the completion of a clinical grade master cell bank to support development of a new immunotherapy based vaccine for patients with pediatric sarcomas.
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MD Anderson Cancer Center
tay-bandz has funded research focused on pediatric osteosarcoma, a soft tissue sarcoma that can occur in adolescents and young adults.
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News & Events
News And Events
Check out the latest news and event information.
Charity Show 2/22/20
CHIWOLF presents the Taylor Matthews Foundation Charity Show. Saturday 2/22/20. Pinebox Rock Shop/12 Grattan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206 AT 10PM
Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0
As we all know, childhood cancer doesn’t pause during a pandemic. It is during times like these that it is especially important that we work together to