The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
The team at Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation continues to reflect upon our founder’s story of determination, as well as her legacy that lives on through our supporters everywhere.
As our founder, Alex Scott, battled her own cancer, her drive to help others pushed her to raise $1 million for kids with cancer by the time she died at age 8. Her belief that you can always do better never wavered even in the harshest of circumstances.
Alex believed that everyone could join together to help change the world. And we do too.
For this Feel-Good Friday, we rounded up three... Read More
Sylvia was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, when she was 6 years old.
Frankie recently received his orange belt. He continues in treatment for pilomyxoid astrocytoma.
Ryan, diagnosed at 22 months with ependymoma, is now 11 years old.
Austin was 15 years old when he lost his life to DIPG.
Frankie was just 6 years old when his parents rushed him to the emergency room. Within hours, Frankie was diagnosed with a brain tumor called pilomyxoid astrocytoma.
Pediatric brain tumors account for about a quarter of all childhood cancer diagnoses. Each brain tumor diagnosis is different — there are hundreds of types and subtypes, each requiring a different treatment and with a different prognosis. For kids like Frankie, the day of diagnosis changes everything. Regular days at school turn into days at the clinic. Family vacations are postponed because of hospital stays and... Read More
Last weekend, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation held its first-ever Virtual End Childhood Cancer Run/Walk 5K. More than 2,000 participants in 46 states and five countries came together to go the distance in their neighborhoods, local parks and on their treadmills. The result: ALSF is able to help more than 400 families who are facing a childhood cancer diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic by fulfilling immediate needs.
The money you raised has enabled ALSF to provide grocery assistance, extended safe, isolated lodging and facilitating travel through ALSF’s... Read More
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