The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
Each September, we work to make the world make an impact for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This is a month when Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) builds awareness, raises funds, and shares the hope for cures and safer treatments that lies in research. Despite accounting for more than 17% of childhood deaths in the United States, childhood cancer is considered a rare disease. Government research funding is limited, leaving us to fill in the gap for the nearly 17,000 children diagnosed in the United States each year and the more than 400,000 children diagnosed worldwide.
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Lemonade stands have been a fun summertime activity for kids for almost 200 years. And now, they are being used to save lives every day, by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) stand hosts! But did you know that lemonade stands weren’t always for kids? From humble beginnings to world-savingwork , the history of summer’s favorite pastime is anything but sour.
Let There be Lemonade
The origin of lemonade is debated, with versions of the drink hailing from all over the world. As lemons themselves... Read More
Zave Smith jokes that one of the hardest parts of his volunteer work with Flashes of Hope is hauling his photography equipment in and out of the hospital.
“Yeah, it’s a real pain,” he said with a laugh. Of course, there are other hard parts, too. Times when his work photographing children, who are sometimes critically ill, causes him to need a long moment afterwards, wishing he had chosen medicine as his profession. “I’ve had to sit down and gather myself on occasion, you know,” he said. But there is the part that is... Read More
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