The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
We are one month into the new year and perhaps you made a lofty goal to run and exercise more.
And perhaps, like over 50% of resolution makers you’ve fallen off the wagon a little. Well, here is the motivation you need to just keep running!
While you are racing to the finish line, you can help fund cutting-edge childhood cancer research! Join Team Lemon—the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Charity Racing Team! While you run, walk, ride or swim, you can help raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer. Team... Read More
Twelve years ago, in 2005, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation gave its first grant to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As we continue Alex's legacy, ALSF continues to raise funds for cutting-edge research, moving the world closer and closer to cures and more effective, less toxic treatments for childhood cancer.
Recently, we introduced you to future pediatric oncology nurse Taylor, who is alive today because of a breakthrough treatment funded by ALSF. Treatment after... Read More
by Liz Scott, Alex's mother
Today marks what would have been a big birthday for Alex—she would be turning 21!
It is hard to picture Alex as a healthy 21-year-old. Cancer was such a part of her life that I can’t imagine her without it — maybe it is because even if she had survived, the cost to her health would have been significant. Or maybe it is just too painful to try to create the 12-plus years of living Alex missed. But, I think it is really because I don’t want to think of her as anything but exactly who she was – my daughter, a sister to her three brothers, a friend... Read More
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