The fight is not over! Grace has so many friends in need of a cure. Please pray for all of the children fighting for their lives and do your best to help raise the necessary funds.

Dear Friends and Family, We can not believe that, after all the fighting Grace has done over the last two years, we must write what follows. At 6:23 this morning, October 29th 2007, Grace Lindsay Oughton earned her wings and is at peace in the arms of the Lord. She fought much harder than we could have and we are so very proud of her. She was an inspiration to us and to so many others. She is our princess and our hero. Fly Butterfly...Fly.

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Our hearts go out to all the families who are battling cancer….

A group of friends and family members established the Grace Oughton Cancer Foundation to support the family and health care needs of Grace.  What grew from this group was the realization that the Oughtons are not alone in their struggle.  Families all over the country suffer financial hardship as a result of insurance denials, travel expenses, lost wages, and more.  In addition to the families’ hardships, pediatric cancer research is grossly under-funded.  Fundraisers have stated that families whose children are fighting, or have fought, cancer, raise the vast majority of research funds earmarked for children.  So, our foundation has taken on this plight.  A plight to support both the families of children fighting neuroblastoma, through direct financial assistance, and to provide grants to the researchers, who are working tirelessly to find an effective way to eradicate this terrible disease. 

Here is just one of our stories…

At nineteen months old, Grace Oughton was diagnosed with a rapidly progressing cancer called Neuroblastoma.  Because of the rare nature of Grace’s cancer, the best treatment option required her to travel to a specialty center where she underwent chemotherapy and other aggressive treatments.  Grace’s initial therapy took place at Children’s Hospital – Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Clinic.  Grace was declared in remission in June of 2006, prior to enduring the first of two stem cell transplants.  On February 14th, 2007 the Oughton family was blindsided by the news that Grace’s cancer had returned.  They have resumed the fight to save their daughter and are living every parent’s worst nightmare.

The Grace Oughton Cancer Foundation is a registered non-stock corporation with the Commonwealth of Virginia. We are tax exempt and a registered charitable 501(c)3 organization with the IRS. Our Federal Tax ID number is 20-5721036. Thank you for your continued support.

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Did you know:

* Almost 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants.
* Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.