The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
Every day, approximately 47 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer. This is equivalent to two classrooms full of children. And each year, childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in the United States.
Childhood cancer happens, and it is scary, but there is so much everyone can do to make a difference, fund research and support families as they go through cancer treatment. This year, you can join Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) in helping kids with cancer.
Not sure how to help? ALSF founder Alex Scott believed that safer treatments... Read More
When Beth Cook’s then 8-year-old son Travis was diagnosed with childhood cancer, she did not know what to say.
The diagnosis came after Travis hit his head really hard and Beth thought he had a concussion. An MRI revealed there was no concussion, but there was cancer in the form of a diffuse and inoperable brain tumor.
“I did not know what to tell Travis, but I had to tell him,” recalls Beth. “I told him there was something in his head that didn't belong there, but it was going to be ok because he... Read More
As a young trainee, many people gave Dr. Michelle Monje, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) grantee from Stanford University the (unsolicited) advice that one cannot have a big career in medicine or science and also have children.
She ignored the advice.
Dr. Monje (mother of four) was just awarded a research grant from ALSF. This grant is a $1 million commitment over two years to study CAR T cell immunotherapy for spinal cord diffuse midline gliomas in a Phase 1 clinical trial. Diffuse midline gliomas are inoperable, lethal, high-grade central nervous system tumors... Read More
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