ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Washington University in St. Louis swimming and diving teams participated in the 20th Annual Hour of Power Relay for Sarcoma Research this week.
First held in 2006, the Ted Mullin "Hour of Power" Relay honors Carleton College Swimmer Ted Mullin who died in the fall of 2006 from sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer. In its first year, 15 teams participated in the Hour of Power and it has blossomed into an event with more than 7,000 participants consisting of college, high school, club and masters teams.
Each team is asked to raise money for the Ted Mullin Fund for Pediatric Sarcoma Research at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital. Since its inception, participants in the Hour of Power have raised over $1 million.
The Ted Mullin Fund supports research into novel chemotherapy/biology agents, new ways to administer chemotherapy, techniques to visualize more accurately the tumor response in the patient, novel genomics strategies to identify high-risk sarcoma patients, molecular techniques to personalize therapy to maximize benefit while reducing treatment-related toxicity and treatments for metastatic or resistant disease that use the patient's own immune system to attack residential tumors.
For more information, visit the Ted Mullin Fund website.
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