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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Each year, CCRF presents Butterfly Awards to individuals, organizations and teams that have contributed significant time and resources to endin...
One year ago, Matthew Buff, a leukemia survivor, was fine-tuning his college applications. Today, he is a busy freshman at Emory University maj...
This piece was originally posted by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblasti...
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...
Many cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy can become immunocompromised – this means their immune systems are very weak, and they a...
This piece was originally posted by Kristy Westrom on the CaringBridge page for her son, Liam, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblasti...
Michelle Vaith originally gave this speech at CCRF’s Thanks to You event in September 2018. After 859 scary, grueling and extremely stressful...
Young scientists who want to dedicate their careers to finding better treatments for children with cancer face a tough road. Young researchers,...
Every so often, as Dr. Cara Rabik is in her lab studying better treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), she thinks of a patient she had wh...
Glutamine, an amino acid, is in many of the foods we eat, like eggs, beef and milk. We need it to build proteins that make up our organs, it he...
“Relapse.” “Metastatic.” These are the dreaded words too many Ewing sarcoma patients hear after weeks, even months, of cancer treatment...
On an otherwise unremarkable day in June 2015, Nicole noticed something about her son that seemed harmless at first – he was limping. She was...
Texas Childhood brain tumors are the deadliest of all childhood cancers. They cause the most cancer-related deaths in children, and for patient...
Nolan, then just 16 months old, had labored breathing in the few weeks before Labor Day 2015. Originally thinking it was asthma, his parents, P...