06/30/2026
This month we launched Fight Like Layla, a campaign to create a Pediatric Access Fund so that children with cancer can receive the PARIS® functional precision medicine test.
The campaign is inspired by an unexpected and heartbreaking reality. In recent months, families across the country have reached out to Cure First because their children are battling one of the most devastating pediatric brain tumors: ependymoma.
For these children, surgery is often the only treatment capable of keeping the cancer under control. But a child's brain can only endure so many operations before there are no more options.
Through the PARIS test, we have already identified promising drug candidates for several children. But one little girl's tumor was different. In our standard panel of nearly 50 drugs, only one drug showed activity.
Our team refused to stop looking.
We tested our entire research library of more than 200 drugs. The expanded screen identified three additional drugs targeting the same vulnerable pathway, as well as two targeted drugs—primarily used for thyroid cancer—that act through a second pathway. The test also confirmed sensitivity to the one drug that had previously helped this little girl, giving her physician greater confidence that it could work again.
This was a child believed to have exhausted every option.
These results give us tremendous hope that functional precision medicine can open new treatment possibilities for children facing devastating cancers. Tragically, many families simply cannot afford the testing.
That is why we created Fight Like Layla. Please note, 100% of donations to the Fight Like Layla Pediatric Access Fund go directly toward providing PARIS testing for children with cancer.
With deep appreciation to generous funders, every donation—up to a total of $100,000—will be matched this month. Every dollar you give will be doubled!
GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/how-do-you-know-a-cancer-treatment-will-work
For inquiries about the PARIS test:
E-mail: [email protected]
or call: (425) 366-7614
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