The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
by Trish Adkins
Around the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation office, hosting lemonade stands is our speciality. It started with Alex’s first DIY front yard lemonade stand and has now grown to include tens of thousands of lemonade stands hosted by families, kids, businesses and community groups all around the world!
We've seen DIY lemonade stands that are simple (a table and some lemonade), over-the-top (featuring the World's Largest Cup of Lemonade) and everything in between! No matter how you make your stand, you... Read More
Ayaan struggled when his brother Kabir was diagnosed with leukemia. Kabir and Ayaan (pictured above) were used to have each other around to play with.
Nine-year-old Dylan had his entire world shifted when his brother Ryan was diagnosed with leukemia. “I think both of them have had to grow up way faster than they should have because of this,” said Jennifer, Dylan and Ryan’s mom.
by Trish Adkins
When then 4-year-old Ayaan’s big brother Kabir was diagnosed with leukemia, Ayaan’s entire routine shifted. His mother, Bhavika, and brother had to move away from home to be closer to the hospital—which was confusing for a 4-year-old who was used to having a brother around to play with.
“You lose a lot of attention for the non-diagnosed siblings and their life gets put on hold,” said Bhavika.
Ayaan, like other siblings of children with cancer, struggled with the sudden shift from normal life to cancer-life.... Read More
Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
by Trish Adkins
When Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai started her lab, she devoted her research to developing specialized iPSC models.
This might not mean a lot to those of us who are not researchers. But these models—made from patient-derived cells—could be the key to understanding the drivers behind certain types of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the most difficult and deadliest types of pediatric leukemia.
The development of iPSC... Read More
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