Fighting childhood cancer, one cup at a time.
Last year, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) was able to award 120 new research grants, help more than 360 families travel to treatment and support over 1,750 siblings on the sideline while their brother or sister battled cancer.
It’s a new year and our resolve to cure childhood cancer remains the same. This year, over 400,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer at clinics and hospitals around the world. Their parents will hold their hand through procedure after procedure.... Read More
Melissa Bento was busy picking up family from the airport for her oldest daughter’s first communion when the pediatrician called and said that her younger daughter, Mia, needed to see a hematologist.
Melissa asked if it could wait. They’d been back and forth to the doctor so many times trying to figure out Mia’s weird blood work. The doctor said: “No, I made you an appointment for tomorrow.”
“My heart,” recalls Melissa, “just dropped.”
Mia had more bloodwork done, and then a phone call came during her sister’s communion that Mia’s neutrophil count was zero. She... Read More
In 2013, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation funded researcher Dr. Rebecca Gardner and her team at Seattle Children’s Hospital began enrolling patients in what was a crazy, sci-fi-esque trial at the time. The trial engineered a child’s immune system and turned those cells in cancer killers.
“I still remember the first patient we infused, and in my heart I wanted it to work so badly and in my head I was like, ‘There’s no way this is going to work,’” recalls Dr. Gardner, who is now at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
At the same time, 175 miles away in Portland ,Oregon... Read More
