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Jimmy Fund

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A children's cancer fund that has been responsible for highly significant work, especially on chemotherapy, that has reduced the death rate with some childhood cancers — particularly, the most common form of leukemia in children — from 90% to 10%.

The Fund was started by Dr.

Sidney Farber, the father of modern chemotherapy

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