Dear Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma Patients, Family Members or Friends,

My name is Yosef Landesman Ph.D. and I am the President and Cancer Research Director of Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International (iCureASPS).

If cure for ASPS is important for you, please become part of a community that aims to find a cure for ASPS.  You can do that by joining us and / or directly sponsor research in laboratories, hospitals and medical institutions that aim to find a cure for ASPS. We will be glad to give you more specific information abot the various options. Please contact me at: landesmany@yahoo.com

Thanks to the efforts of the ASPS community, the first Cancer Vaccine Clinical Trial for Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma (ASPS) opened at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Now other ASPS clinical trials, as the ARQ 197 are open at the Dana Farber and in other centers in the USA and soon in other locations in the world.

We are proud to support these efforts and would like to see them continue until a cure is found. Medical research is very costly and it is the responsibility of each one of us to raise the funds needed to support the efforts of finding a cure for ASPS. In 2004, we assembled a team of bicycle riders and joined the largest single contributor to Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund: the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC). This bike-a-thon crosses Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber. Since 2004, Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International has raised $ 224,583 exclusively for research Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

This year, 2009, “Team ASPS” will ride again for the 6th time! Some of us will ride nearly 90 miles, and others over 160 miles. 100% of the money we raise supports efforts to find a cure for ASPS. Please let’s make sure that we do our best NOW to support these efforts.

We need your help to meet this fundraising goal. Please be a sponsor of “Team ASPS” and also ask your family and friends to support finding a cure for ASPS.

There are two convenient ways to donate:

1. On-line donations through the pmc.org website. After you enter into the PMC site, click on the “e-gifts” link on the upper left side of the page. You will be directed to a web page, which its title: “Click the type of donation you wish to make”. Then click on: “Sponsor one Rider with one donation”, then you can locate my fundraising account by clicking on “Select a person by eGift ID” and then typing my eGift ID number: YL0002. Fill in the amount of your donation, then your personal and credit card information. Then submit your donation.

2. Alternatively you can write a check payable to “PMC-Team ASPS YL0002”. Mail your donations to:

Yosef Landesman
260 Tappan St.
Brookline, MA 02445

Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International thanks you very much for your support!

Best Wishes,
Yosef Landesman Ph.D.

President and Cancer Research Director
Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International
e-mail: landesmany@yahoo.com