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...
Helping Young Adults Make Decisions about Life and Death
From using a child’s own cells to fight cancer to creating next generation leukemia therapies, you’re helping turn researcher’s ideas int...
Easing the Pain of Transplant: Alex’s Story
“I begged for Megan to come in every day,” Alex told us, with his sister Kirsten and mother Nancy nearby. While most of his friends are hea...
Unlocking the Door to Ewing Sarcoma
The answers to a deadly childhood bone cancer could be locked in a database holding 1,600 iPhones’ worth of data. And thanks to a gift from a...
2016 Research Highlights: What Donors Made Possible
From using a child’s own cells to fight cancer to creating next generation leukemia therapies, you’re helping turn researcher’s ideas int...
New Grants Provide Support for Childhood Cancer Clinical Trials
Children’s Cancer Research Fund, in partnership with Momcology, a national peer support foundation for pediatric cancer families, has awarded...
A New Era for Children with Neurofibromatosis
Moertel’s immediate interest is a new class of drugs that target very specific “signaling” proteins inside cells to restore quality of life...