I’m Shaving My Head to Help Raise Money to Prevent Childhood Cancers – Please Donate

by Prince Of Petworth — February 13, 2012 at 5:00 pm 22 Comments

I’ve decided to join team Boundary Stone to help raise money to prevent childhood cancers. The event is run by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. On March 10th I’ll be shaving my head at Fado in Chinatown with team Boundary Stone.

Help me meet my fundraising goal by donating here (click on the “Make a Donation” button on the left.) Thanks everyone!

Anonymous-est

Fine but I demand a locket with a PoP hair in it!!! 😉 Good luck on fundraising for a good cause!
shawster

happy to help out, but pics or it didn’t happen.
Red Derby

Dan, We are happy to help as always..Great charity all the best from the entire derby staff.
- Anonymous
  
  Props to the Red Derby.
Anonymous

So that is what you look like. Nice to finally see the face behind the blog.
- Dan
  
  Well, that handy “about” link on the top left of the blog has always helped 😉
thirteenfourteen

Dan, you’re the man.
Bossfan77

I think you should sell locks of your hair on ebay to help out the cause…. man would that be creepy!
Anonymous

PoP is the best!!!
dat

Good cause. Happy to help.
kristen

You look a little like Luke Perry — in a good way! cheers to a great cause!
JenDC

PoP.PoP.PoP.

Hope the Princess is on board with the bald-ing. If this cold stays put, I may have to knit you a hat.

Will add to the donations in the AM (and see if I can recruit a few others chip in, too).
Anon

This is awesome. However, I have to point out that research organizations like this one are not in the business of preventing cancer. They are in the business of treating cancers that already exist. The difference is subtle, but critical. Both are important, but only a tiny fraction of research funding is devoted to actually researching how to prevent cancer and reverse the swelling number of childhood cancers cases we have seen in the past few decades. Whenever I am asked to donate money to cancer-cure organizations, I instead donate to the small, greatly neglected prevention organizations.
- Anon X
  
  I’m not sure you’re on the right track with that one.
  
  From the NIH:
  
  How have childhood cancer incidence and survival rates changed over the years?
  Over the past 20 years, there has been some increase in the incidence of children diagnosed with all forms of invasive cancer, from 11.5 cases per 100,000 children in 1975 to 14.8 per 100,000 children in 2004. During this same time, however, death rates declined dramatically and 5-year survival rates increased for most childhood cancers. For example, the 5-year survival rates for all childhood cancers combined increased from 58.1 percent in 1975–77 to 79.6 percent in 1996–2003 (2). This improvement in survival rates is due to significant advances in treatment, resulting in a cure or long-term remission for a substantial proportion of children with cancer.
  
  It seems like to me, that while incidence has gone up, its been FAR outpaced by success in treatment. There are about 2000 more cases per year, but survival for all cases has gone up by 1/3rd. Seems like funding is pretty well placed.
  - Anon
    
    Ah, ok. Still – don’t you think we should be trying to prevent cancer, in addition to treating it? Wouldn’t you rather that these people don’t have to suffer in the first place?
Anonymous

Is no one going to comment on the fact that PoP is apparently super hot??? No one??
- niv
  
  we kinda already knew it
- Anonymous
  
  Nice. He is a good looking guy. When I saw the picture I personally thought that it would not be that much of a hardship for him to shave his head since he has a nice thin and symmetrical fact.
  - Anonymous
    
    should say face, not fact. Fail.
nettie

before and after photos please!
- JenDC
  
  Before, DURING and after photos, please.
  
  Fingers crossed the Event will be a blog post…
- Anonymous
  
  Yeah, whatever happened to that glue sniffer who used to film those PoP Trekker segments? Maybe he can document the thing for you.

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