Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

Childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a lethal blood cancer that remains difficult to treat because a large proportion of patients have disease that does not respond to currently available treatments. Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that exploits the immune system to fight cancer cells. Over the past decade, several immunotherapies have emerged as highly effective forms of cancer therapy in the setting of both solid tumors and blood cancers in children.