Fighting childhood cancer, one cup at a time.
Dr. Catherine Flores, with childhood cancer hero Sawyer.
by Trish Adkins, ALSF
Ever since she was a child, Dr. Catherine Flores, of the University of Florida, loved the challenge of experimenting and investigating the origins of things. Now, as a pediatric cancer researcher, Dr. Flores is applying those interests to curing childhood brain cancer.
ALSF awarded Dr. Flores a Young Investigator grant in 2015, which she used to study the preclinical development of adoptive cell therapy to fight... Read More
by Trish Adkins, ALSF
For as long as she can remember Sabrina Wang, a student at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, wanted to be a scientist. As an undergraduate student, Sabrina received a 2016 Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) to work with Drs. Eric Raabe, Charles Eberhart and Jeffrey Rubens at Johns Hopkins.
Sabrina spent the summer working in the lab, learning and studying... Read More
Childhood cancer survivors like Tony, pictured above, have to be monitored for possible cardiac health side effects due to treatment.
Childhood cancer survivors are 7 times more likely to experience cardiac dysfunction at some point in their lives than other children. Harsh treatments from some types of high-dose chemotherapy and radiation therapy increase their risk of having an irregular heartbeat, weakening the heart muscle and even hardening of the arteries.
This is one of the many reasons why childhood cancer research is so important—cures should not come at the cost of heart health.
The good news: researchers are working every day to finder safer treatments... Read More
