The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
I want to tell the world about a friend of mine. Some call him Patrick O’Malley, others call him a husband but I call him dad. He has been my best friend since the day I was born. When I was a child, we did everything together. He coached both my sister's and my soccer teams growing up. He taught me how to read and write, but most importantly he taught me to be a good person.
I was 7 years old when I was diagnosed with brain cancer. My diagnosis day was my dad's birthday -- May 29. That day, I saw him drop to his knees and cry. There’s something to be said about seeing your dad... Read More
Out of options at his local children’s hospital, Eli’s family (pictured above) learned of a promising treatment plan at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – 1,200 miles from their home in Little Rock, Arkansas.
A childhood cancer diagnosis is often sudden and overwhelming. It is a difficult time for families to navigate that brings stress about treatment, new expenses and changes to day-to-day life. To help families feel less alone in their fight, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) established family service programs as part of our mission to support childhood cancer families wherever possible.
These programs get families to clinical trials far from home, encourage, empower, and comfort siblings of kids with cancer, and provide the tools they need to navigate their child’s cancer... Read More
If you ask Cole Fitzgerald what it is like to face childhood cancer for a second time — fifteen years after his first rare cancer diagnosis — Cole will say in his Jersey accent:
“It is what it is.”
And what it is this second time around is pancreatoblastoma, a type of cancer that has only ever been documented 50 times and just once following a neuroblastoma diagnosis. That one case —that’s Cole Fitzgerald.
“It definitely came out of left field. I definitely didn't see it coming. Nobody saw it coming,” said Cole. “And it brought a lot of frustration, a lot of anger... Read More
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