The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
“As a sibling of a cancer patient, it’s been really rewarding to be able to continue to help my sister touch people’s lives even after she’s gone,” says Mallory, who was a senior in high school when her sister, Kelly, died from osteosarcoma. Mallory dedicated her basketball season to fundraising for ALSF—and raised $40,000. She went on to college and continued fundraising through her athletics.
“I somewhat accidentally ended up raising almost $40,000,” Mallory humbly admits as she reflects back on her senior year of high school. “My community was definitely grieving the loss of my sister, and we had built up a large community over the two years that she was undergoing treatment,” she explains.
Mallory was just starting her senior year of high school when she lost her sister, Kelly, to osteosarcoma. Mallory knew she wanted to honor her sister’s memory and decided to put her athletic skills to the test with a basketball fundraiser for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF... Read More
ALSF funded-researcher Dr. Yael Mossé (pictured above) is the lead author on a new paper published in Nature Medicine. The paper shares the results of Dr. Mossé’s clinical trial for lorlatinib, a targeted therapy that showed success treating children with neuroblastoma tumors harboring the ALK mutation.
Philip, who diagnosed at 3 years old with neuroblastoma, looks on as his mom Wendy meets Alex Scott's mom, Liz, for the first time. Both mothers shared the bond of having children who faced ALK-driven neuroblastoma.
Philip was 3 years old when doctors told his parents that his neuroblastoma was incurable.
His parents, Wendy and Jeff, were devastated. But even in devastation, they did not give up hope — hope for more time and a miracle. That hope led them to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and to Dr. Yael Mossé, an oncology clinician as well as a Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)-funded researcher.
Dr. Mossé has dedicated her career to researching and treating neuroblastoma. Through ALSF, she has... Read More
Out of options at his local children’s hospital, Eli’s family (pictured above) learned of a promising treatment plan at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – 1,200 miles from their home in Little Rock, Arkansas.
A childhood cancer diagnosis is often sudden and overwhelming. It is a difficult time for families to navigate that brings stress about treatment, new expenses and changes to day-to-day life. To help families feel less alone in their fight, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) established family service programs as part of our mission to support childhood cancer families wherever possible.
These programs get families to clinical trials far from home, encourage, empower, and comfort siblings of kids with cancer, and provide the tools they need to navigate their child’s cancer... Read More
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