Exploring unconventional paths to new treatments for childhood rhabdoid tumors
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...
I’m a cancer mom – and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month exhausted me.
Another Childhood Cancer Awareness Month has come and gone. They are a messy thing, awareness months. On one hand they are a time and pla...
Layla’s Story – Living in Limbo with a Brain Tumor
Nine-year-old Layla knows way too much about cancer for her age. She can explain what a shunt does, what a port is for and she understands...
Zebra Technologies and Great Cycle Challenge
CCRF’s partner, Zebra Technologies, helped month-long cycling event Great Cycle Challenge engage thousands of cyclists and raise millions of...
CCRF-funded researcher to open immunotherapy clinical trial for hepatoblastoma
O’Neill, a recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award from Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF), is studying a new therapy to treat children...
8 new scientists will kickstart their projects thanks to CCRF
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...
Setting the Stage for First-Ever Targeted Treatment of an Extremely Rare Sarcoma
Dr. Okimoto studies a deadly subset of sarcoma, cancer that develops in the bone or tissue, called CIC-DUX4 sarcoma. He estimates only about...
Sneaking past medulloblastoma’s micro-defenses
CCRF Emerging Scientist Award winner Giedre Krenciute is developing a Trojan horse of sorts to sneak past medulloblastoma’s armed defenses...
Cancer parents look back on what they didn’t know
Every parent of a child fighting cancer has a different story. But one thing we hear over and over when talking to cancer families is this…...
CCRF-funded researcher uses microscopic protein pathways to beat graft-versus-host disease
Kids like Alex often need blood or marrow transplants (BMTs) as part of their treatment plans. Typically, these transplants use immune cells...
Cancer is not the same in kids and adults – cancer parents explain why
No matter what age someone is at diagnosis, cancer is devastating. But when it comes to treatment and research, childhood cancers and adult...
Ella’s Story – Facing Fear and Taking Action
Ella’s parents, Christina and Joe, remember the morning their cancer experience started – they woke up to four missed phone calls from their...
Sara’s Story – What it Means to Survive
Sara Maas vividly remembers walking out of her doctor’s office the day she was diagnosed with cancer. She had just returned from her...
Researchers investigate existing drugs to treat AML more safely
The last time Children’s Cancer Research Fund donors heard about Ani Deshpande, Ph.D. assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical...
Crossing international borders in retinoblastoma research
For kids, rare means fewer doctors understand how to treat their disease, it’s difficult to find and develop better treatments, and hard to...
Designing better weapons against cancer cells
Jae-Woong Chang, PhD, initially had his eye on medical school. But then his high school teacher pointed out: “Doctors can cure about only...
Engineering better treatments for AML
“This is a very innovative approach. Using precise gene editing, we hypothesize that we can change one protein in healthy hematopoietic stem...
Amaiyah’s Story – Beating a Brain Tumor
When 9-year-old Amaiyah finished treatment for a brain tumor this year, her mom, Tequila felt like they’d finally stumbled over the finish...