St. Jude’s Cancer Survivorship Research Project

Miami, Florida-based executive Brian Sidman has extensive experience in real estate investment, acquisition, and capital-raising. In addition to his years in senior management positions for commercial real estate investment firms in California, Florida, New York, and New Jersey, Brian Sidman is a former board member of a foundation which has raised over $16 million for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

In addition to its groundbreaking research for preventative and restorative cancer treatment, St Jude’s is studying the long-term impact of treatment on childhood cancer survivors. Its Cancer Survivorship Research program is composed of the LIFE study and Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). 

The LIFE study tracks the long-term health outcomes for over 4,300 former St. Jude’s patients. The study has helped the research hospital anticipate the challenges faced by cancer survivors and develop effective methods for monitoring health issues.

The CCSS is a collaborative effort of over 30 treatment centers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The CCSS is analyzing data from more than 35,000 childhood cancer survivors who were first diagnosed between 1970 and 1999 and 5,000 of their siblings. The study aims to understand the relationship between long-term health risks, treatment type, and individual factors.