U. nurse gets national grant to study teen cancer

U. nurse gets national grant to study teen cancer


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SALT LAKE CITY — A nationally recognized, volunteer-driven charity that raises money for childhood cancer research, has awarded more than $45,000 to the University of Utah College of Nursing.

The supportive care research grant is going specifically to Lauri Linder, an assistant professor and pediatric oncology clinical nurse specialist at Primary Children's Medical Center.

Linder is one of four recipients of the grant, which comes from the St. Baldrick's Foundation. She plans to use the funding to further focus on recognizing and managing symptoms in adolescents who are diagnosed with cancer. Linder, who has worked in pediatric nursing for more than 20 years, hopes to develop a tool that will give teens with cancer a means to communicate the symptoms that they are experiencing from their own unique perspective.

Worldwide, more than 160,000 kids are diagnosed with cancer each year and it remains the leading cause of death by disease among children in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

St. Baldrick's has awarded more than $21 million in grants, mostly to pediatric cancer researchers, during its current fiscal year. It aims to supplement the 3 percent of federal research dollars going to study pediatric cancer nationwide.

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