When 13-year-old Sydney Tune stood in front of 70 Pennsylvania school principals and administrators in Spotsylvania County, Pa., in February to make her pitch, she wasn't sure if any of them would listen.
“Don’t give cancer power, make a face that’s sour!” is the rallying cry for the first ever Titan Lemonaid Week, a week-long public relations campaign, put forward by a team of Cal State Fullerton students, to raise funds and awareness for children fighting the deadly disease.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY - The Lindbergh High School Band is in the middle of a marathon jam session.
The band began playing music at 7 a.m. Friday morning and will not stop until 7 p.m. Saturday. They're playing to honor their young friend, Alex, who lost a three year battle with cancer.
Researchers with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences took what some would consider garbage and made a remarkable scientific tool, one that could someday help to correct genetic disorders or treat cancer without chemotherapy’s nasty side effects.
Five non-profit groups on board as charity partners
After a very successful inaugural year with roughly 2,500 participants and over $16,000 generated for local charities and school clubs, the Ventura Marathon is taking it a step further.
NORWALK -- When Alexandra Scott decided, as so many other four-year-olds do, to set up a lemonade stand, she did so with the caveat that all the money made at her modest first enterprise be donated to a hospital.
After hours of planning and organizing, Pacific University students Josiah Hanson and Renae Bertrand's class project is almost complete- the couple will host an event to raise money for cancer research Friday, April 4.
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By Joan Springhetti
3/31/2014
SANTA CRUZ >> The lemonade stand that will be set up in the engineering courtyard on Science Hill on April 18, is about far more than a glass of lemonade, though it is about that, too. It is also about a toddler named Aurora, about a parent's worst nightmare, about community and about hope.
Sylvia loves volunteering and being active and artistic. After an MRI revealed a brain tumor instead of a suspected food allergy, Sylvia's entire life changed. She had surgery two days later and then began treatment. Thankfully today, she is cancer-free!
