The Childhood Cancer Blog

The Childhood Cancer Blog

Welcome to The Childhood Cancer Blog
from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!

Taylor was a cancer patient and now, she is studying to be a pediatric oncology nurse.

Taylor, a 21-year-old University of North Alabama student, is studying to become a pediatric oncology nurse. Although she’s only in her first year of nursing courses, Taylor knows exactly what nurses can mean to their patients. Taylor was once a cancer patient herself, relying on the nurses as a support system. 

“The nurses helped me. They were my family away from home,” says Taylor, who plans to help children battling childhood cancer in the same way she was helped. 

Her Cancer Journey In 2006, Taylor was an active 11-... Read More

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Hero Families, SuperSibs, supporters and amazing network of friends.  

We are thankful each year for the hero families—the Hero, the SuperSibs and the parents of a child battling cancer. These families go the distance each year for their own children, for each other and for their larger childhood cancer community. Our founder, Alex, inspired all of us to be thankful each day and of course, to turn all of our lemons into lemonade! 

Members of Hero Families are each affected differently by a childhood cancer diagnosis and  SuperSibs... Read More

Immunotherapy offers hope in the fight against childhood cancer. Read more about immunotherapy childhood cancer research

The body’s immune system is robust and powerful—it can reject an entire transplant organ within minutes or hours if the mismatch is too severe. The moment it senses infection, the immune system wakes up and deploys cells to heal the body. 

So, why doesn’t the body attack cancer cells the same way it heals an infection?

The answer lies in the powerful, sinister ability of cancer cells to hide from the immune system, using cloaking technology that is a result of mutations and adaptions within these abnormal cells. As a result, tumor cells can grow without any interference. ... Read More

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