My four year old daughter - Medi Sheffield was diagnosed with Stage 2 Ganglioneuroblastoma - a nervous system cancer in November 2009. It's a rare tumor that occurs in less than 5 out of 1,000,000 children per year. She had the para spinal tumor successfully removed on November 12 2009 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. We continue to have Medi monitored with scanning every three months. Alex's Lemonade Stand Alex Scott was a pediatric cancer patient in the cancer treatment center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. In 2000, at the age of 4, Alex told her parents that she wanted to have a lemonade stand in her front yard to raise money to donate to "her hospital" to help the doctors find cures for all children with cancer. After fighting her own battle with cancer for seven years, Alex died peacefully at her home in August 2004 at the age of 8. The new Alex Scott Day Hospital, on the 4th floor of the Wood Building at CHOP, has 4,500 square feet of space and features a child-life playroom with a specially designed Alex's Lemonade Stand mural. It was named in recognition of a $2 million grant pledged by Alex's Lemonade Stand. Medi and I would also like to help "her hospital", and raise money to support this worthy cause. The money we raise will continue to support the cancer research program at CHOP, where Medi is being treated. I will be running a half marathon in New York on March 21st 2010, and ask if you could please sponsor me for this event. Donations can be made on this page, from any country and will go directly to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This charity is making important strides in research to eradicate childhood cancer as well as improving the lives of children and their families as they battle childhood cancer. THANK YOU for making a difference for children with cancer everywhere! Catherine. For more information about Medi visit - https://www.carepages.com/carepages/medisheffield