Her Greatest Triumph
On a snow-thawing day in Minnesota, osteosarcoma survivor Anna (35) wrote a beaming message on her Facebook page: "Mila Alice was born March 2,...
A Forgotten Thank You
Caregivers are present at the beginning, middle and end of cancer. Caregivers are the people who go to the first doctor appointment for “ju...
New Clinical Trial Aims to Tackle Deadliest of Brain Tumors
‘Midline malignant glioma’ is a mouthful – and it’s also one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer. A four year old child diagnose...
Father of a Cancer Superhero
April 30, 2017 will, for my wife and I, be a date that we will always know where we were, what we did, every moment of the entire day. It was a...
Photos During Chemo – A Survivor’s Perspective
When I was 17 years old, I was a three-sport varsity athlete, lifeguard and fiercely independent oldest child. I spent most summer nights at bo...
First, Survivor – Now, Volunteer
Dustin Hron is a Care Partners volunteer in the bone marrow transplant unit at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. A neu...
Remembering Callie
It is with great sadness that we share our dear friend, Callie, passed away on Sat., April 7, 2018 after a two-year battle with pelvic rhabdomy...
Riding to Give Back
In his three years of participating in Great Cycle Challenge USA (GCC), Jeff Freitag has ridden 970 miles — that’s more than three times ac...
A Family Legacy to Fight Brain Cancer
Six years apart, a mother and daughter both passed away from brain cancer. Today, their families reached a goal set nearly 10 years ago to hono...
Bravery – MacKale’s Surgery
Michigan Kids are fearless, reckless and infinitely braver than most adults. I think that God makes them that way to remind us that he’s in c...
Do You Want A Warm Blanket?
The summer months were in full swing in August but my 16-year-old body was more like an 80-year-old woman’s in a nursing home. Only a few sho...
Nine Years Later
The passing of time is a gift. I have found time cannot be grasped nor exchanged like currency but nine years after my cancer treatments conc...
I Went There Once
I went to that place once. For just a moment, I thought about what could have been, and I almost lost every spark of joy I had left. Despair...
Today is What We Have
Connor was only 6 weeks old when he survived an emergency brain surgery. It was in the hours of that life-changing surgery that I learned to ...
Mariah’s Story – Dedicating My Life to Research
Mariah was diagnosed with osteosarcoma when she was 2 years old. After undergoing hospitalizations, painful treatment and amputation surgery, M...
Tougher Than Rocket Science
Osteosarcoma is so overwhelmingly good at overcoming current treatments that it may just take a rocket scientist to help defeat it. Theresa Bee...
Don’t Get Me Wrong
After surviving two cancers and a bone marrow transplant (BMT), it was finally time to start school at the University of Minnesota. I worked so...