A Blood Test for Bone Cancer
When a child is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a body of work from the University of Minnesota scientists over the past decade suggests the child...
Dream Fund Supports 7 Emerging Scientists
This past April, a group of incredibly generous supporters gathered at the Armory in downtown Minneapolis to celebrate progress and invest in t...
CCRF Funds 9 New Research Projects
This September, your generosity, advocacy and awareness-building made a mighty big difference. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CCRF awar...
A “Better Set of Goggles” for Bone Cancer Imaging
When 16-year-old Nate (above) had his 10-hour surgery to remove the bone tumor from his ribs and spine, it was critical that doctors removed th...
Less Toxic Drugs For Ewing Sarcoma
The problem: The survival rate of children whose Ewing sarcoma cancer has spread is nothing short of heart-breaking, and only 20% of children w...
Fighting Cancer With Data
Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient’s own immune system to treat their cancer, could be the next chapter in childhood cancer treatment. Unfor...
A Cure in the Making
In talking about a new project to develop new treatments for osteosarcoma, University of Minnesota researcher Beau Webber, PhD, uses a word he ...
Building the Case for Kids with Hepatoblastoma
Federal funders like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are typically more interested in funding broad health concerns such as HPV or deme...
Upcoming Clinical Trial Takes Aim at Brain Tumors
Childhood brain tumors cause the most cancer-related deaths among kids and young adults ages 0–19, recently surpassing leukemia. But, a profo...
Targeting Chemoresistant Leukemia Cells
Sometimes, leukemia cancer cells are so powerful they can overcome the most potent of chemotherapies. Because of support in part by Children's ...
Printing Tumors to Study Spreading Cancer
Dr. Angela Mortari uses a bioprinter to study spreading tumors. Photo courtesy of the University of Minnesota. In today's cancer research wor...
Hope for the Future of DIPG Treatment
In the past 40 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the world of childhood cancer research. Survival rates have risen dramaticall...
Study finds cancer rates in children are increasing
A new study at the University of Minnesota found that cancer rates in children are increasing all over the world. The study, led by Jenny Poynt...
Cancer Survival and Socioeconomic Status
Racial and ethnic disparities have long plagued health care, but according to Children's Cancer Research Fund Chief Medical Advisor Logan Spect...
Cell, Gene and Immunotherapy – Exciting Progress and New Hope
For kids like Jacob, a bone marrow transplant is often a risky but necessary treatment to keep cancer at bay. But it can also cause severe side...
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...
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...