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...
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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...
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...
Current research data suggests childhood cancer survivors are not getting the care they need, which can become life-threatening. “Survivors t...
Lucie Turcotte, MD, MPH, MS loves hearing about school, dating, graduations, weddings… everything “normal” in a childhood cancer survivor...
‘Midline malignant glioma’ is a mouthful – and it’s also one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer. A four year old child diagnose...
A lot can happen in five years. Five years ago, Zach Sobiech was battling osteosarcoma and watching his hit song “Clouds” climb to the top ...
Osteosarcoma is so overwhelmingly good at overcoming current treatments that it may just take a rocket scientist to help defeat it. Theresa Bee...
Hepatoblastoma is one of the fastest rising childhood cancers in the U.S., yet it’s still considered one of the rarest. It’s so rare, in fa...
From going to the Little League World Series to heading to soccer practice, Justin Cowen had an insatiable love of sports. You’d often find h...
Twenty-five percent of adolescents and young adults (AYA) who need bone marrow transplants (BMT) will not survive. In many cases, a BMT is the ...
Walking into a lab at night, you’ll find fluorescent lights illuminating rows of microscopes and postdoctoral students hunched over their wor...
Your support will help researchers examine and treat childhood cancer-predisposing diseases. Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Neurofibromatosis type 1 ...
Your support will help researchers investigate how to make chemotherapy effective for kids with spreading bone cancer. Osteosarcoma is a deadly...
Your support will help scientists study links between obesity and childhood cancer outcomes. Childhood obesity is a serious health problem. The...
Your support is helping improve life for survivors of germ cell tumors. Though children who have been diagnosed with germ cell tumors tend to h...
Your support is helping eliminate graft-versus-host disease. Many childhood cancer treatment plans include stem cell transplants that can lead ...