CCRF Wins Award for Innovation
On September 17, Children’s Cancer Research Fund accepted the Innovative Nonprofit of the Year award at OneCause’s Raise conference in Chic...
CCRF Funds 9 New Research Projects
This September, your generosity, advocacy and awareness-building made a mighty big difference. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CCRF awar...
A “Better Set of Goggles” for Bone Cancer Imaging
When 16-year-old Nate (above) had his 10-hour surgery to remove the bone tumor from his ribs and spine, it was critical that doctors removed th...
Less Toxic Drugs For Ewing Sarcoma
Texas The problem: The survival rate of children whose Ewing sarcoma cancer has spread is nothing short of heart-breaking, and only 20% of chil...
Fighting Cancer With Data
Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient’s own immune system to treat their cancer, could be the next chapter in childhood cancer treatment. Unfor...
Allison’s Story – Fearless
When you meet 18-year-old Allison, you might notice her short and sassy haircut or her wide, generous smile. You might notice the tattoo on her...
Survivor’s Guilt
“Whoa. This is a real thing,” I thought to myself when I finally realized where my brain was going. We had been home from the hospital for ...
Elizabeth’s Story – A Fight With Ewing Sarcoma
When 15-year-old Elizabeth was preparing for her gymnastics competition last December, she was barely thinking about the surgery she had the we...
When Kindness Keeps Us Going
When your family is facing cancer, you might feel like you are continually running on fumes. You haven’t showered, gone grocery shopping, or ...
Remembering Taylor
This week, we lost a spirited advocate, fearless supporter and dear friend. Taylor Lieber, who has fought three different types of cancer since...
Fighting Isolation as a Cancer Parent
Isolation – it’s one of the many painful challenges cancer families experience during and after treatment. Many parents feel they can’t l...
A Cure in the Making
In talking about a new project to develop new treatments for osteosarcoma, University of Minnesota researcher Beau Webber, PhD, uses a word he ...
Building the Case for Kids with Hepatoblastoma
Federal funders like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are typically more interested in funding broad health concerns such as HPV or deme...
A First Lost Tooth
This piece was originally posted on July 17, 2019 by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell a...
Nate’s Story – Not Afraid
Sixteen-year-old Nate is most himself when he is playing his guitar. He’s been playing since he was around 10 years old, and his favorite son...
6 Ways Cancer Changes Your Perspective
When your child is diagnosed with cancer, it changes the lens through which you view the world. Things look and feel different, and certain thi...
Breaking the News – A Doctor’s Perspective
Imagine for a moment that you’re a pediatric oncologist. You’ve had over 20 years of education and you’ve passed dozens of tests and comp...
Cancer Parents’ Advice to Themselves
If you could go back to the day your child was diagnosed, what advice would you give yourself, knowing what you know now? This is the question ...