“Children shouldn’t get cancer,” says Rio Grande do Sul businessman Fernando Goldsztein in a video interview with EXAME. Goldsztein is an advisor to the real estate developer Cyrela, but he speaks as president of The Medulloblastoma Initiative (MBI), a global organization with a more than noble goal: to cure medulloblastoma, a brain cancer that affects around 30,000 children worldwide each year.

The businessman created the initiative in 2021 driven by a family story. In 2015, his son, then 9 years old, was diagnosed with the tumor. The cure rate is 65%. But in 2019 the tumor returned, a condition that drops the chance of a cure to just 5%. “Today my son is stable, but not cured,” says the entrepreneur. “When the tumor returned, we sought treatment in the United States and realized the global challenge of treating this disease. Society ignored these children and invested in more frequent cancers.” (…)

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