Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

Co-Investigators: Leanne Embry, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center and Robert Noll, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Families must make difficult treatment decisions throughout the course of childhood cancer therapy. Professional organizations promote the inclusion of children and adolescents in their own treatment decision making. However, researchers report that children and adolescents with cancer are not always involved in their own treatment decisions to the level that they would prefer. Additionally, there are no reported research findings that describe the impact that increased treatment decision involvement or lack of involvement has on the child or adolescent and their families.