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...
CCRF Supports 4 New Emerging Scientists
Young scientists who want to dedicate their careers to finding better treatments for children with cancer face a tough road. Young researchers,...
Less Toxic Treatments for Children with AML
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...
Starving Cancer Cells – Blocking Glutamine in Aggressive B Cell Lymphoma
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...
A Better Target – Making Ewing Sarcoma Cells Sensitive to Chemotherapy
“Relapse.” “Metastatic.” These are the dreaded words too many Ewing sarcoma patients hear after weeks, even months, of cancer treatment...
Jacob’s Story – Becoming a Hero
On an otherwise unremarkable day in June 2015, Nicole noticed something about her son that seemed harmless at first – he was limping. She was...
Making the Most Impact – Treating Childhood Brain Tumors
Texas Childhood brain tumors are the deadliest of all childhood cancers. They cause the most cancer-related deaths in children, and for patient...
Nolan’s Story – Why Research Matters
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...
Gabby’s Story – The Power of “Gabbitude”
Chemotherapy is pretty nasty, but has yet to take down what 13-year-old Gabby’s mom calls her “Gabbitude.” Gabby is feisty and always tel...
Izzy’s Story – One in a Million
In December 2016, Amanda and Jeremy celebrated the birth of their twins, Isabelle (Izzy) and Isaiah. Just over a year later, they were back at ...