Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

There are over 500,000 childhood cancer survivors in the United States. As more children survive cancer and as more new treatments are being added to the standard of care, a focus on survivorship becomes critical as these children navigate life after treatment (see Section 1). Federal funding of grants studying cancer survivorship (for both adults and pediatrics) has more than doubled in the past ten years.²⁴² The Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act, passed in 2018, has a special focus on enhancing resources for survivors and their families (see Section 3).²⁴³ Of special interest is survivorship among the adolescent and young adult population. Some key areas of survivorship focus include barriers to follow-up care, impact of socioeconomic status on survivor outcomes, risk factors and predictors of long-term side effects, and newer treatments’ imapct on physical health.