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“Clouds: A Memoir” Q&A with Author Laura Sobiech

DonateLaura Sobiech is the author of “Clouds: A Memoir,” a book that chronicles the final year of her son Zach’s life before he passed aw...

Eric Zhou, PhD at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is studying how to relieve insomnia for childhood cancer survivors. The problem: Child...

These were the heart-wrenching words Sarah and Kyle heard from their 6-year-old daughter Harper in the midst of her treatment for leukemia....

Being a cancer parent comes with a multitude of worries and challenges that make taking care of your family and yourself incredibly difficult �...

Tania Kibble did not think she could have children. But this year, she and her partner Brian received the best surprise of their lives: baby Cl...

When Gabe beat acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 4, his parents, Nicole and Michael, thought they were putting cancer behind them. He’d bee...

Maxim Pimkin, MD, PhD at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is exploring how depleting two proteins in the body could save children with an...

There are dads, and then there are cancer dads. Click to read cancer dad Tamer's blog post, "A Message to Dads," about how he let go of his "to...

[Photo courtesy of Keighla's Fresh Face Photography] Four-year-old Harriet and her sister, Ada, 6, went downstairs into their play room after g...

COVID-19 is a huge strain on healthcare workers, many of whom become like family members during our cancer experience. They see and care for th...

Recently, Rumer Rodne opened a journal which her mom, Mary, had been saving for her. On each page, Rumer read the story of her cancer diagnosis...

Ani Deshpande, PhD at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in California is working to target previously ‘undruggable’ protei...

For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought scary realizations to the forefront. We now know that our whole world can change overnight, a...

Our world looks much different than it did just a few weeks ago – since COVID-19 became a pandemic, daily routines have been upended. This cr...

When Gunner was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 3 and a half years old, his family never imagined that he’d still be in treatment four and a ...

As so many of us now know, people with compromised or weakened immune systems are at much higher risk for COVID-19 complications. This includes...

Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, many of us have been asked to practice “social distancing” – staying home and away from large cro...

If someone you know has childhood cancer, you may have a lot of questions. You may be following social media updates about them and trying to k...