![]() Calif., in 2012), is a way for moms of children with cancer in various stages of treatment to raise money and also build awareness. The annual event, which is held in a different city every year (San Antonio in 2013 and Hollywood. Baldrick’s mission to conquer childhood cancers.” ![]() We are so thankful for their incredible efforts and unwavering support of the St. ![]() “Since the team’s inception in 2010, these brave women have provided hope to so many across the nation and around the world. “We are so humbled by the outstanding commitment and fundraising accomplishments of all 46 Mommas team members,” she said. Baldrick’s Foundation CEO Kathleen Ruddy praised the mothers in a press announcement about the event. After all, Yeager noted, “My kid survived because of research.” Baldrick’s Foundation, which fundraises for pediatric cancer research, adding to the $1.5 million the event has pulled in over the course of five years. This year, through pledged donations, the moms raised more than $200,000 for the national St. and Canada convened in Boston on Sunday to have their heads shaved bald in a public ceremony for the fifth annual 46 Mommas event - so-named to symbolize that each weekday of the year, 46 mothers in the U.S. It’s why Yeager and 45 other mothers from around the U.S. But countless other children - nearly 2,000 a year, according to statistics from the National Cancer Institute - are not so lucky. Luckily, Zarek is now cancer-free, making it through years of draining surgeries and steroid treatments that turned the family’s world upside down. “It’s unimaginable, the dread of loss you feel.” ![]() “It’s horrible, hearing the words ‘Your kid has cancer,’” Yaeger, a pharmaceutical biochemist from Massachusetts, told Yahoo Health. When Maisy Yeager’s son, Zarek, was just 8 years old, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoid leukemia. Indiana mom Allison Smith, who shaved in honor of her son Jackson, a brain tumor survivor.
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