Advocating for Your Child During Cancer Treatment
Occasionally, parents of children with cancer experience surprising and tense situations with clinical care teams. For Nicole, mother of acute ...
Self-Care Tips for Cancer Caregivers
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 ...
“Helping is an Honor” – Angie’s Care Partners Story
(Above): Angie with Catherine in 1998, when Catherine was in treatment for cancer. Very few people understand just what a family goes through w...
MacKale’s Step Forward
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...
How to Be the Friend a Cancer Family Needs
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 ...
Busting Myths about Childhood Cancer Research
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...
Cancer Survival and Socioeconomic Status
Racial and ethnic disparities have long plagued health care, but according to Children's Cancer Research Fund Chief Medical Advisor Logan Spect...
Cell, Gene and Immunotherapy – Exciting Progress and New Hope
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...
5 Tips to Help Your Child Take Their Medication
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 ...
Forbes/SHOOK™ Summit to Fuel Brain Tumor Research
Children’s Cancer Research Fund is proud to announce it has been selected as the philanthropy partner for the 2019 Forbes/SHOOK Top Advisors ...
Just A Checkup
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...
There’s Always Hope – Catherine’s Story
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...
“We Always Knew She’d Make It” – Nora’s Story
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...
When the Hospital is Home – A Packing List
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...
Leukemia and Lightsabers – Liam’s Story
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’s Story – One Step At A Time
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...
Tips for Bringing a Meal to a Cancer Family
During the stress and uncertainty of cancer treatment, a home-cooked meal from a friend can be a welcome relief. If you're considering bringing...
Wyatt’s Story – Fighting Far From Home
In a family of three brothers, Wyatt is right in the middle. He’s a naturally energetic kid who loves playing with his brothers, so when he p...