While treatments like CAR T cell immunotherapy have changed the landscape of treatment for kids with some types of childhood leukemias, researchers have had less success translating immunotherapy to solid tumors. Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Young Investigator grantee, Adam Wolpaw, MD, at Children’s... Read More
The Childhood Cancer Blog
Welcome to The Childhood Cancer Blog
from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!
My son, Tony, is 18 years old. He is a survivor of cancer — three times over. He was first diagnosed 15 years ago with neuroblastoma; then later lymphoma and skin cancer. Both these secondary cancers were a result of his initial cancer treatment and complicated, seemingly never-ending, side effects.
My daughter, Samantha, is 16 years old. She’s been through it all, with us and all too often, without us, as we spent days and nights for months at a time,at the hospital.
I love my son and daughter.
Fatherhood for me boils down to all things that I did not expect to... Read More
Edie, with her mother Emily.
Alex Scott, ALSF Founder
Edie was just 5 months old when she began experiencing stomach pain. Her parents knew something wasn’t right and after a series of tests, Edie was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. By the time she was 2 years old, Edie had been fighting neuroblastoma for over half her life and treatment wasn’t working.
Her cancer persisted. Out of options, Edie went to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Center of Excellence.
CHOP doctors tested Edie’s blood and found she was harboring a specific mutation called anaplastic lymphoma... Read More
