The Childhood Cancer Blog
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from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!
Check it out…the latest example that your support and our efforts to fund childhood cancer research is making a difference!Through a study partially funded by ALSF, researchers in California have developed a new model that will help scientists test and develop more effective therapies for medulloblastoma – a particularly aggressive form of a childhood brain tumor. Kids with medulloblastoma have a high survival rate, but the treatment itself can leave them with a significant risk of other disorders and mental impairments.ALSF Innovation Award grantee Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD of the... Read More
Whether you look forward to the annual holiday on February 14th or dread the thought of it each year, we ask you to forgo feelings of despair or gifts of flowers and candy to truly embrace the spirit of love by supporting Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. We’re not talking about the romantic, materialistic love that retailers want to sell you on, but instead the love seen in the face of... Read More
Schools have become an integral group of supporters for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation with perhaps one of the greatest examples being The Potter Cup. Each year for the past nine years, two middle schools in the Philadelphia suburbs – Haverford Middle School and Paxon Hollow Middle School, hold a great event consisting of several athletic competitions, games, pep rallies, food, lemonade (of course) and a lot of noise! All of this spirited competition results in an amazing fundraising event... Read More
