WHO IS CARTER MARTIN?
Carter Martin loved God, Georgia Tech, Providence Christian Academy, his dog Comet, and his family and friends. He excelled in art, sports and academics and thrived on competition. He also had cancer – Ewing’s Sarcoma – and endured a 20-month battle with the disease, which left him with one leg and a hole in his head. Despite 14 cycles of protocol chemotherapy and additional experimental forms of therapy, Carter relapsed and passed away on Sept. 12, 2004. He was just shy of his eighth birthday. THE EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY RESEARCH FUND Scientific discovery and advances have helped to improve the cure rates of many childhood cancers from a 20 percent chance of survival in the 1960s to more than 75 percent today. This progress is the result of experimental therapies (clinical trials) conducted at cancer centers worldwide. The study of experimental therapy is children means using well-known, proven cancer-fighting agents and giving them new combinations and using them in new ways in hopes th
