The Childhood Cancer Blog
Welcome to The Childhood Cancer Blog
from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!
We often use the word “battle” in the context of our fight against childhood cancer, but we’ve waged a different kind of conflict in a new contest for schools – The Great Lemonade War. We’ve recruited award winning children’s book author Jacqueline Davies, who has authored a series of “lemonade” books – The Lemonade War, The Lemonade Crime and The... Read More
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
