Orono Soccer Teams Up to Kick Cancer
Each year, Orono High School Men’s and Women’s soccer teams hold a Kick Cancer game to benefit a cancer charity that has special meaning to...
Meet Juliet from “Today’s the Day!”
Twelve-year-old Juliet’s kindness is obvious to anyone who meets her. She’s the kind of girl who goes above and beyond to make her peers fe...
Don’t Know A Child With Cancer? You Can Still Help.
If you are the kind of person who would gladly offer to make a meal or run errands for a family facing childhood cancer, but don’t know any p...
Talking to your child about their peer with cancer
Cancer is a complicated disease, so it can be hard to explain it to your child if a friend or classmate has cancer. However, it is important fo...
Please, Don’t Stay Little
This piece was originally posted by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblasti...
Gifts for a Child Battling Cancer
If you know a child battling cancer, you may want to show you care with a gift. It might be hard to know what the child would enjoy most, or wh...
Video Gamers Raise $15,000 in One Day
If you think a group of passionate video gamers wouldn’t have an interest childhood cancer research, you would be wrong. A group of gamers ...
How Cancer May Change Holiday Traditions
A cancer diagnosis may mean that plans will have to change from what they’ve been in the past. Maybe your sister always hosts Thanksgiving di...
Looking Forward
When Nick was in high school, soccer was everything. So when he started feeling a bad pain in his calf after a game, he assumed it was a normal...
Against All Odds
Tracy’s brother once said about her, “Don’t ever tell my sister she can’t do something, because she will always prove you wrong.” Pro...
Music Therapy Program Receives $50,000 Grant
When McKhia had to stay in the hospital after her bone marrow transplant (BMT) to treat her cancer, her days got long. Hospital rooms can be bo...
2018 Butterfly Awards
Each year, CCRF presents Butterfly Awards to individuals, organizations and teams that have contributed significant time and resources to endin...
Holes – A Survivor’s College Essay
One year ago, Matthew Buff, a leukemia survivor, was fine-tuning his college applications. Today, he is a busy freshman at Emory University maj...
Making the Bed
This piece was originally posted by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblasti...
3 Gifts that Aren’t Allowed in Hospitals – And What to Bring Instead
If you’re planning to bring a gift to a friend battling cancer, you might not know that some traditional gifts are discouraged - even against...
4 Ways You Can Protect Immunocompromised Cancer Patients
Many cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy can become immunocompromised – this means their immune systems are very weak, and they a...
The Beginning – Liam’s Diagnosis Day
This piece was originally posted by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblasti...
The Finish Line
Michelle Vaith originally gave this speech at CCRF’s Thanks to You event in September 2018. After 859 scary, grueling and extremely stressful...