Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation

2010 Catwalk -- Mark your calendars for November 4th.  More information forthcoming.

Request for Proposals -- Research Grant Applications due November 1, 2010. Applicants, please read this important note.

Stand Up To Cancer: Click here to learn more about the second-ever broadcast of its type which airs this September 10th, 2010 on all four major U.S. television networks and countless cable stations in an effort to fight cancer.

Download the Sarcoma Survivors Starter Notebook in PDF format here.

Click here to see Board Member Leigh Williams' interview with the CW Houston's Yolanda Green on Outlook Houston as she discusses sarcoma cancer and ASCF.

Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, Professor and Head of MD Anderson Cancer Center's Children's Cancer Hospital, provides an update on the ImmTher Clinical Trial for Newly Diagnosed High Risk Ewing's Sarcoma patients and the need for trial participants. Click here.

MD Anderson Cancer Center’s KNIT program (Kids Need Information Too) provides information to young children with a parent who has been diagnosed with cancer (an unfortunate reality for many children of sarcoma patients). The video shows clips of several families and provides helpful hints on what to do and what not to do when talking to your children about your cancer. This resource is highly recommended.

ASCF Corporate Housing Program lessens both financial and emotional toll for out of town sarcoma patients seeking treatment, follow-up and care from Houston specialists.

Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation's TEAM SARCOMA 2010 was again another huge success. The 2010 walk took place at the Galleria Houston on Saturday, July 24th. The walk was held in memory of Ben Ling in an effort to increase awareness for the disease.  The 2010 effort was a coordinated partnership between ASCF and MD Anderson Cancer Center's researchers, nurses and support staff.  More than one hundred attended in the local event donning Two by Two t-shirts and spreading awareness of sarcoma.  More than 25,000 participated in the internationally coordinated effort.

Dr. Michael J. Reardon, surgeon at Houston's Methodist Debakey Heart Center, answers questions on cardiac angiosarcoma. Read more.