News
12
Nov
CCF Donates $70,000 to Children’s Medical Center
Dr. Carrye Cost is the recipient of a Children’s Cancer Fund Research Fellowship Award, which includes the 2010-2011 academic year. She is currently studying the risk factors of infection and fever in children with cancer who have low blood counts as a result of their treatment. The goal of her research is to develop a risk model to predict a group of patients at low risk for a blood infection who might be safely managed without hospitalization. Decreasing hospitalizations will save more than $1,000 per day, decrease medication resistance and side effects for patients, and allow patients more time to be a “normal” kid outside of the hospital.
