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Study finds cancer rates in children are increasing

A new study at the University of Minnesota found that cancer rates in children are increasing all over the world. The study, led by Jenny Poynt...

This piece was originally posted by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblasti...

Occasionally, parents of children with cancer experience surprising and tense situations with clinical care teams. For Nicole, mother of acute ...

When you’re caring for a child with cancer, self-care could easily be the last thing on your mind. Caregivers frequently hear phrases like �...

(Above): Angie with Catherine in 1998, when Catherine was in treatment for cancer. Very few people understand just what a family goes through w...

Michigan Childhood cancer can force us to make decisions we never imagined we’d face – decisions that, for good or bad, will alter our live...

When your family is facing childhood cancer, the friends who go above and beyond make all the difference. But if you are that friend or family ...

There are plenty of myths surrounding childhood cancer research – how it works, how fast it moves, and how much funding it needs to move forw...

Racial and ethnic disparities have long plagued health care, but according to Children's Cancer Research Fund Chief Medical Advisor Logan Spect...

For kids like Jacob, a bone marrow transplant is often a risky but necessary treatment to keep cancer at bay. But it can also cause severe side...

As any parent who has ever had a sick child knows, sometimes it takes more than a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. Helping kids ...

Children’s Cancer Research Fund is proud to announce it has been selected as the philanthropy partner for the 2019 Forbes/SHOOK Top Advisors ...

There are moments, once you have been through what we have, that make you recognize another cancer parent. You may feel gravitation towards a c...

In 1998, Cheryl brought her daughter, Catherine, in to the doctor’s office for what felt like the hundredth time. A little over a year earlie...

Kellie will never forget how it felt to hear that her 23 month old daughter, Nora, had cancer. Each new detail opened up a whole new world of s...

At just one year old, little Izzy was diagnosed with a germ cell yolk sac tumor, a rare form of cancer. After many difficult rounds of chemo, I...

Plenty of 5-year-old boys get bumps and scrapes, but when Kristy started noticing more bruises than normal on her son Liam, she mentioned it to...

Benjamin, just a year old, is the youngest of four. When he was born, his parents, Laura and Jim, had no reason to believe anything would be wr...