Using artificial intelligence to optimize childhood brain tumor treatment
Brain tumors recently rose to be the most common cause of cancer-related death in kids. Those that survive can develop serious negative...
Our 7 best holiday fundraiser tips and tricks
Meg McElroy says she started raising money for CCRF somewhat on accident. Since 2009, she’s hosted an annual holiday party to keep college fr...
Improving communication and trust between cancer families and care teams
Communication breakdowns between patients, parents, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals could result in unnecessary stress and...
Dream Further Campaign hits $2 million for cancer survivorship research and care
When childhood cancer survivor Ted Sibley finished his cancer treatment as a teenager, he received a t-shirt that said, “Finish Line.” He was...
Does body composition impact the severity of chemo side-effects in children?
The research questions started to percolate for pediatric oncologist Aman Wadhwa, MD, MSPH, as he made his rounds of the pediatric oncology uni...
CCRF-funded researcher is outsmarting the defenses of AML cancer cells
Shannon Conneely, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, envision...
Celebrating the naming of the Katie Hageboeck Children’s Cancer Research Fund Clinic
On Wednesday, October 13, longtime members of the Children’s Cancer Research Fund community gathered to celebrate the dedication of the Katie...
Discovering the cell origin of Ewing sarcoma
For decades, the question of Ewing sarcoma’s genetic beginnings has stumped scientists, leaving potential therapeutic targets...
Mixbook helps childhood cancer families reflect on their journeys
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, treatment usually lasts months, even years. Childhood cancer families are so focused on getting through ...
Exploring unconventional paths to new treatments for childhood rhabdoid tumors
Capucine Van Rechem was still a teenager when cancer stole away both her parents. First her mother died of breast cancer, and then her father p...
I’m a cancer mom – and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month exhausted me.
Another Childhood Cancer Awareness Month has come and gone. They are a messy thing, awareness months. On one hand they are a time and pla...
Layla’s Story – Living in Limbo with a Brain Tumor
Nine-year-old Layla knows way too much about cancer for her age. She can explain what a shunt does, what a port is for and she understands...
Zebra Technologies and Great Cycle Challenge
CCRF’s partner, Zebra Technologies, helped month-long cycling event Great Cycle Challenge engage thousands of cyclists and raise millions of...
CCRF-funded researcher to open immunotherapy clinical trial for hepatoblastoma
O’Neill, a recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award from Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF), is studying a new therapy to treat children...
8 new scientists will kickstart their projects thanks to CCRF
Many great ideas go unexplored in the childhood cancer world due to a lack of funding. Thanks to donors like you, eight new projects are...
Setting the Stage for First-Ever Targeted Treatment of an Extremely Rare Sarcoma
Dr. Okimoto studies a deadly subset of sarcoma, cancer that develops in the bone or tissue, called CIC-DUX4 sarcoma. He estimates only about...
Sneaking past medulloblastoma’s micro-defenses
CCRF Emerging Scientist Award winner Giedre Krenciute is developing a Trojan horse of sorts to sneak past medulloblastoma’s armed defenses...
Cancer parents look back on what they didn’t know
Every parent of a child fighting cancer has a different story. But one thing we hear over and over when talking to cancer families is this…...