The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
Hosting a lemonade stand on a hot summer day is a great way to beat the heat and help kids beat childhood cancer! This year, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation’s (ALSF) annual Lemonade Days is back! It is the perfect time to come together and help raise funds for childhood cancer research. Our founder Alex Scott's first-ever front yard lemonade stand was 23 years ago. While so much has changed, one thing hasn't: a lemonade stand is a sweet (and effective!) way to help kids with cancer.
This year, you can join... Read More
The National Institutes of Health define rare diseases as conditions that affect fewer than 200,000 people. But for families facing one of these diseases, like Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS), these diagnoses don’t feel rare. BWS affects approximately 1 in 10,000 kids and is linked to increased risk of certain childhood cancers, including Wilms tumor and hepatoblastoma. With proper treatment and monitoring, these cancers are treatable, which makes it critical to properly identify kids with BWS... Read More
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
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