CCRF Funds 9 New Research Projects
This September, your generosity, advocacy and awareness-building made a mighty big difference. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CCRF awar...
Building the Case for Kids with Hepatoblastoma
Federal funders like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are typically more interested in funding broad health concerns such as HPV or deme...
Creating a Clearer Picture of Hepatoblastoma
Hepatoblastoma is one of the fastest rising childhood cancers in the U.S., yet it’s still considered one of the rarest. It’s so rare, in fa...
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 ...
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,...
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...
Faces of Childhood Cancer: Dexter
Neuroblastoma Survivor We first met Dexter at Minneapolis’ Ronald McDonald House. Eight years old at the time, he sat cross-legged on the liv...
An Unfamiliar, Familiar Place
This is part 2 of Taylor’s story. If you missed part 1, read it here. I saw Jaimie again when I was admitted to the 7th Floor of Minneapolis Ch...
2015 Research Highlights: What Donors Made Possible
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS With world-class expertise and a proven track record of success, the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center is advan...
Adalyn’s Story: Surviving Retinoblastoma
Adalyn of South Saint Paul, Minnesota was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma on September 24, 2012, at mere 9 months old. “Never did we imagine th...
The Rambergs’ Story: Three Generations of Retinoblastoma
Surviving childhood cancer is enough of a challenge. Meet an inspiring family who has done it for three generations. It was 1940, and the paren...
Emma’s Story: Surviving Neuroblastoma
In the summer of 1999, Emma was a toddler with a cough that prompted parents Angie and Shaughn to bring her to the doctor. A chest x-ray reveal...
Joseph’s Story: Surviving Osteopetrosis
Osteopetrosis is a big word for such a little guy, and yet Joseph, now just a little over a year old, has had that word attached to him since h...
Rosie’s Story: Surviving Wilms Tumor
Any child diagnosed with cancer has the battle for their life ahead of them. However, what if you lived in a third world country and didn’t k...
Sydney’s Story: Surviving Retinoblastoma
Vision is important. Whether it’s the sense of sight or the ability to picture your future goals as reality. Take 9-year-old Sydney; she want...