The Childhood Cancer Blog
Welcome to The Childhood Cancer Blog
from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!
Exciting news – Liz Scott, Alex’s mom, has been chosen as one of the mom bloggers on Working Mother’s website. Deemed “Lemonade Mom,” Liz will share some of her life experiences as a mom, as well as advice from time to time through this blog. Her first entry examined how she as a mother dealt with a child’s illness and how she listened to her instincts. Check out the beginning of her blog below, and click on the link for... Read More
Figure legend: Shown is a chicken egg after using the Egg Topper. The membrane that lies under the shell is where we place fluorescent tumor cells to test their ability to move through blood and lymphatic vessels into the developing chick. Our hope is to find a number of drugs that slow or reverse the process of tumor cells metastasizing from one location to the next.In 2008 we had an idea: we should try to identify... Read More
As you may know, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation recently announced our 1 Million Member Mission on our Facebook Cause. While we have seen a great response since that time, we thought offering an incentive wouldn’t hurt! An anonymous donor came forward and offered an Apple iPod touch 8GB for ALSF to award to the top recruiter one month from today (April 6, 2009). In addition to the top recruiter, every person who recruits... Read More
