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Passion drives purpose. Purpose drives performance. Tom Sutter’s passion is helping kids beat cancer

22 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Tom Sutter points out that pediatric cancer research gets only 4% of federal funding, despite kids having access to fewer than 30 chemotherapy drugs compared to 900+ for adults. No new pediatric-specific chemo drug has been developed in roughly 30 years.

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4%.

Adults: about 900+ chemotherapy drugs; Children: fewer than 30.

About 30 years.

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A lot of people don't understand. Of federal funding for cancer research, 4% goes to pediatrics. Only 4. And to me, I think that's backwards. I mean, you're talking about the future of our country and the future of our generations that you're going to donate. You're going to, you know, 4% goes to research. I mean, not that adults don't need research as well, but adults have 900 and some odd drugs for chemotherapy drugs. Kids have less than 30. And there has not been a new one for kid for Pediatrics in 30 years. So that's kind of that whole research through clinical trials is where we get involved with, too. Yeah.