Kendra Scott and MD Anderson for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

In an effort to help in the fight to end cancer, Kendra Scott aligned with The University to Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for a national Kendra Gives Back event on Sept. 7, 2016 at its nearly 50 stores across the country and online at www.kendrascott.com. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and we’re honored to introduce you to Kayla, 19, of Lake Charles, La., diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and Michelle, 17, of Sugar Land, Texas, diagnosed with leukemia. Both girls have long been fans of Kendra Scott. They were thrilled to be selected as ambassadors for this year’s campaign. Their story puts the spotlight on the main problem child cancer faces: a severe lack of funding. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in children, next only to traumas and deadly accidents. Although 40,000 children are in cancer treatment each year, less than 5% of the federal government’s total funding for cancer research is given to childhood cancer research. And that need was heard so loudly through Michelle and Kayla’s own stories. As Kayla put it, “It’s a scary, sad thing to talk about, but childhood cancer needs to be talked about. We need funding.” When MD Anderson thinks of childhood cancer, they think about the years lost, the chapters lost, when cancer claims the life of a child. They believe in the need to devote more funding and attention to children’s cancer because to them, it is not just the number of saved lives, but the number of saved years. Follow more