New CCRF Grants Will Fund Young Scientists Early in Their Careers
Walking into a lab at night, you’ll find fluorescent lights illuminating rows of microscopes and postdoctoral students hunched over their wor...
Examining and Treating Childhood Cancer-Predisposing Diseases
Your support will help researchers examine and treat childhood cancer-predisposing diseases. Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Neurofibromatosis type 1 ...
Investigating How to Make Chemotherapy More Effective for Kids with Osteosarcoma
Your support will help researchers investigate how to make chemotherapy effective for kids with spreading bone cancer. Osteosarcoma is a deadly...
Helping Scientists Study Obesity and Childhood Cancer Outcomes
Your support will help scientists study links between obesity and childhood cancer outcomes. Childhood obesity is a serious health problem. The...
Helping Improve Life for Germ Cell Tumors Survivors
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: Eliminating Graft-versus-Host Disease
Your support is helping eliminate graft-versus-host disease. Many childhood cancer treatment plans include stem cell transplants that can lead ...
The Difference You Make: Brain and Nervous System Cancers
Your support makes a difference for kids with brain tumors. Today, researchers are investigating the complicated genes behind two deadly childh...
Breakthroughs in Brain Tumor Research
Photo by Brady Willette Because of donors like you, Michael Olin, PhD, and assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Universit...
Meet the Researchers: Megan Voss, DNP, RN
With only 4 percent of government funding dedicated to childhood cancer research, the impact on kids and doctors is visible. Funding gaps slow ...
Training the Next Generation of Scientists
Children’s Cancer Research Fund donors help train the next generation of childhood cancer researchers. With fewer doctors choosing academic car...
Your Support is Leading to a Clinical Trial
We aren’t afraid to solve a fatal problem that’s millions of years old, and we’re grateful you aren’t either. Because of your support o...
Taking Care of Children After Treatment
Graduation: It’s a much-anticipated milestone that marks a new life ahead. For the many children who’ve overcome childhood cancer, the tran...
How I Care For My Brother Now
It’s funny how one place can create so many narratives in your life. For me, that place is the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. Nestled ...
Using Tiny Particles to Deliver Cancer Treatment
Thanks to donors like you, Peter Gordon, MD, PhD, has already discovered how to deliver drugs to leukemia cells using nanoparticles. Typically,...
The Next Generation of Leukemia Therapy
Childhood B-cell leukemia can be a devastating disease that is currently treated with chemotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)...
Early Leukemia Detection in Newborns
Leukemia is one of the most common childhood cancers, representing approximately one-third of all cancer diagnoses among children under the age...
Building Up Leukemia Patients’ Immune Systems
After stem cell transplant, children don’t yet have an immune system. Because their immune systems are knocked down, children could die of...
You Wrote The Next Chapter
Only 4 percent of federal cancer research funding goes to childhood cancer, and you didn’t let that discourage you. You decided to do somethi...