DNA test could predict future brain tumor relapses in kids
Drs. Erin Crotty and Margot Lazow were motivated by their young, resilient patients to spend their careers studying some of the most...
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Drs. Erin Crotty and Margot Lazow were motivated by their young, resilient patients to spend their careers studying some of the most...
Ewing sarcoma researcher Beau Webber, PhD, and epidemiologist Logan Spector, PhD were selected for a multimillion-dollar National Institutes...
Through a selective granting process, Children's Cancer Research Fund (CCRF) recently awarded these eight promising scientists the Emerging...
Cancer and the therapies used to treat it can alter the delicate blend of a child’s blood proteins. As a result, children with cancer often...
Even before a baby is born, neuroblastoma can start to quietly creep through their nerve cells, growing into a tumor that might go undetected f...
Even as a college student volunteering in the cancer ward of his local children’s hospital, Robert Galvin, MD, knew he wanted to become a ped...
It’s up to you to make a difference for kids fighting cancer - and in 2021, you delivered. Because of you we funded 40 new research...
Brain tumors recently rose to be the most common cause of cancer-related death in kids. Those that survive can develop serious negative...
Communication breakdowns between patients, parents, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals could result in unnecessary stress and...
The research questions started to percolate for pediatric oncologist Aman Wadhwa, MD, MSPH, as he made his rounds of the pediatric oncology uni...
Shannon Conneely, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, envision...
Capucine Van Rechem was still a teenager when cancer stole away both her parents. First her mother died of breast cancer, and then her father p...
O’Neill, a recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award from Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF), is studying a new therapy to treat children...
Many great ideas go unexplored in the childhood cancer world due to a lack of funding. Thanks to donors like you, eight new projects are...
Dr. Okimoto studies a deadly subset of sarcoma, cancer that develops in the bone or tissue, called CIC-DUX4 sarcoma. He estimates only about...
CCRF Emerging Scientist Award winner Giedre Krenciute is developing a Trojan horse of sorts to sneak past medulloblastoma’s armed defenses...
The last time Children’s Cancer Research Fund donors heard about Ani Deshpande, Ph.D. assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical...
Jae-Woong Chang, PhD, initially had his eye on medical school. But then his high school teacher pointed out: “Doctors can cure about only...