Thank you for visiting my Team Lemon page for the Chicago Marathon.

I am raising funds and running for Team Lemon and Alex's Lemonade Stand to help fight children's cancer.

Our son, Ben (pictured at left with younger brother Colin and my wife Elise) is doing well, in his 4th year of remission from cancer. Due to the dedicated medical professionals at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Children's Memorial Chicago (now Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago), he received the most advanced treatment plan for his type of cancer-Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Thanks in large part to grants from ALSF, doctors, researchers, and nurses are able to identify the specific challenges to bringing new treatments to and caring for children with cancer.

Thank you for helping to support the fight against childhood cancers,

Marty Whitaker

For more information on ALSF's approach to research grants, please see: http://www.alexslemonade.org/grants