Childhood Cancer

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is cancer of the white blood cells -- the cells that help fight infection. ALL is the most common form of childhood leukemia. View the 2023 Impact Report.

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Latest Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) grants

Unraveling the Mechanisms of Inherited Predisposition to Childhood Leukemia
Vijay Sankaran, MD/PhD, Principal Investigator
Boston Children’s Hospital
Innovation Grants, Awarded 2024
The role of pyruvate kinase as a therapeutic target in pediatric leukemia
Daniel Herranz Benito, PhD, Principal Investigator
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
R Accelerated Award Grants, Awarded 2023
Immunoglobulin High-Throughput Sequencing for Refining Risk Stratification in Infant B-ALL
Carol Fries Simpson, MD, Principal Investigator
University of Rochester
Reach Grants, Awarded 2023
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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) Heroes

Viviana Glover
Adelaide Kanton
Ayla Castro
Hayden Weslow
Seth Walsh
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Latest Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) blog posts

Meet Four Kids Fighting Leukemia
Kids come in all shapes and sizes, and so do their cancers. There are dozens of pediatric cancers, but leukemia accounts for nearly 28% of all childhood cancer diagnoses. Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells – which are crucial to... more
Quarterly Childhood Cancer Research Update: Spring 2021
As the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Director of Science, I work to evaluate our funded research projects to track progress and find gaps in funding so that we can direct more research dollars to the largest areas of need, and to... more
How Tissue Donation is Helping Childhood Cancer Research
When Lilly faced surgery after relapsing, her family made the decision to donate extra tumor tissue to research instead of throwing it away. 

“We hope that Lilly’s neuroblastoma tumor can be some small part of helping other children who... more
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Marloe Rain

Marloe Rain was a soul full of sunshine. She danced her way through multiple rounds of radiation and even kept dancing to her favorite songs through the harshest rounds of chemotherapy. She is a hero to her family, who hopes to keep sharing her story.
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