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16 July 2021- Users of service stations Zoilo Ríos group You can purchase a paper crane to color for one euro, the proceeds of which will go to projects by Aragonese researchers related to this disease.
- Through this initiative, which will be active until August 31, in just two weeks almost 500 units have been sold, half of the initial goal
An ancient Japanese legend says that if you make a thousand paper cranes, you will be granted a wish. In the 60s, Sadako Sasaki attempted to achieve this challenge. He was 12 years old and had been diagnosed with a very aggressive leukemia caused by radioactive fallout from the explosion of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, his city. With great determination and capacity for suffering, the little girl made hundreds of cranes before dying in the hospital and her schoolmates decided to complete the challenge of a thousand origami cranes in her memory. The Zoilo Ríos Group joins their fighting spirit and, since last July 1, has put a thousand coloring cranes on sale at its service stations at the price of one euro each, the proceeds of which will be used to finance Aragonese researchers related to this disease through Aspanoa.
The solidarity initiative has had an excellent reception, taking advantage of the summer dates and the increase in vacation travel. So much so that, in just two weeks, half of the planned objective, selling 1.000 units, has been reached, although the campaign will be valid until August 31. In order to encourage sales and thank the support of the Aragonese business group, several of the researchers and the manager of Aspanoa, Juan Carlos Acín, have visited the Los Ibones service station in Zoilo Ríos.
Zoilo Ríos, managing director of the business group, has highlighted the “great satisfaction” of having the opportunity to help an organization like Aspanoa and thus “contribute” to the fight against childhood cancer. “We are proud to be able to serve to spread the work of Aspanoa and I encourage our customers to take advantage of their visit to our service stations to refuel or check the pressure of their wheels before going on a trip, also to contribute their grain of sand by purchasing the sheet. , which also awakens the creativity of the little ones in the house,” he added.
For his part, Juan Carlos Acín, manager of Aspanoa, thanked the Zoilo Ríos Group for “the implementation of this type of initiatives that, in addition to raising much-needed funds, are an excellent speaker to disseminate the research projects that we carry out.” cape".
Aspanoa's strategic challenge is to turn Aragon into a national benchmark in the treatment and research of childhood cancer, and to this end it maintains the commitment to annually launch a call with 60.000 euros to finance research projects and another of 30.000 euros to promote training. of health professionals and humanization actions in the field of Aragonese oncopediatrics. In this sense, Aspanoa's drive has made it possible to launch the first research against childhood cancer in the history of Aragon, which until 2018 had never worked on this disease. With a committed investment of 365.000 euros, four projects have been launched, three of which are developed at the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón) and the other at the Miguel Servet Children's Hospital.
The three projects developed at the IIS Aragón are led by scientists Julian Pardo, Alberto Jiménez Schuhmacher and Patricia Sancho. The first seeks more effective treatments against leukemias and neuroblastoma, which represent 40% of the most common childhood cancers, through new immunotherapies and, specifically, the so-called NK cells ('natural killers' or 'natural killers'). in Spanish). Clinical trials in patients are planned to begin in 2023.
The project coordinated by Alberto Jiménez seeks new methods to diagnose diffuse truncal glioma (DIPG), a rare childhood brain tumor with a poor prognosis that is almost impossible to biopsy without putting the child at risk. Jiménez Schuhmacher aims to develop a technique that allows us to know the tumor subtype through a non-invasive virtual biopsy.
The third project, led by Patricia Sancho, investigates how to prevent medulloblastomas - the most common brain tumor in children with cancer - from reappearing after treatment, since when recurrences occur, survival expectations drop drastically.
Regarding the project developed at the Miguel Servet Children's Hospital, it is led by Dr. Esperanza Castejón, from the Nutrition Unit, and seeks to diagnose early the malnutrition that children with cancer may suffer as a consequence of the aggressive treatments they are receiving to fight the disease. To this end, Aspanoa has donated state-of-the-art equipment to the Hospital.