The Childhood Cancer Blog

The Childhood Cancer Blog

Welcome to The Childhood Cancer Blog
from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!

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Summer is a great time to shop and help kids with cancer! No matter what (or who!) you have on your shopping list, you can help fund cutting-edge research, support families as they travel for treatment and give hope to children facing cancer.   

We’ve rounded up some of our gifts, items and shopping opportunities (hello, Prime Days!) that make an impact in the fight against childhood cancer through Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF).  

Beyond this list of fun summer shopping items, we have a whole variety of products that support the Foundation from our outstanding... Read More

Lakelynn, who is battling a rare sarcoma, lived in extreme pain until a clinical trial stopped disease progression. Now thanks to research, she continues her search for a cure and enjoys being a big sister.

Frontline treatment for children with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, hasn’t changed in 40 years. 

At diagnosis, chemotherapy and surgery are recommended. If a child relapses and the cancer metastasizes to the lungs, where it most often does, the only option is a clinical trial. And for children with metastatic disease, the odds are terrifying: 5-year survival rates drop in half from 60-percent at diagnosis to 30-percent following osteosarcoma relapse.

For these children, the need for safer, effective treatments is urgent. 

The story is similar for the 1,700... Read More

While treatments like CAR T cell immunotherapy have changed the landscape of treatment for kids with some types of childhood leukemias, researchers have had less success translating immunotherapy to solid tumors.  Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Young Investigator grantee, Adam Wolpaw, MD, at Children’s... Read More

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