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Kids and Sarcoma (Facts for Sarcoma Awareness Month)

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

Unlocking Immunotherapy to Fight Neuroblastoma 

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

You expect to see them grow up; it’s terrifying when you don’t know if that will happen. (On Fatherhood and Childhood Cancer)
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  • the salerno family
  • driving a bumper car

My son, Tony, is young adult. He is a survivor of cancer — three times over. He was first diagnosed when he was 3 years old with neuroblastoma; then later lymphoma and skin cancer. Both these secondary cancers were a result of his initial cancer treatment and complicated, seemingly never-ending, side effects. 

My daughter, Samantha, has been through it all, with us and all too often, without us, as we spent days and nights for months at a time,at the hospital. 

I love my son and daughter. 

Fatherhood for me boils down to all things that I did not expect to happen;... Read More

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Featured Hero

Maggie Gaal

Maggie is the definition of a survivor. She battled osteosarcoma at 9 years old and thankfully came out the other side. She is now a full-time member of Team Alex planning and running special event fundraisers.
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