A blog about children’s cancer survivors, fighters and supporters,
and the cancer research that accelerates the search for cures.
Our daughter Krislynn was diagnosed with Stage 4 Wilms tumor (Kidney cancer) which spread to her liver, lungs, abdominal nodules, and enlarged lymph nodes on 10/15/2016. Her treatment was brutal. Treatment COG AREN0533 with DD4A, Viscrstine/ Dactinomycin/ Doxorubcin, Cyclophosphamide and […]
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2020 will be our 8th year walking for and supporting CureSearch, and we have successfully raised more than $175,000! Thank you for your past and future support! We formed team Hope for Sydney in 2013 after our daughter Sydney, then 3, was
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It’s been 5 years since our family stepped into the childhood cancer world… also what we call “the club” we never chose to join. Many thoughts went through my head. I couldn’t imagine what a 3 year old could possibly
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In the spring of 2009, Anna Rogotzke was a happy and seemingly-healthy two-year-old who loved to sing and dance and play with her two big brothers. She loved Dora the Explorer, Disney princesses – especially Cinderella – giraffes, and anything
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Chloe Gochenour is 11 years old and lives with her family in Luray, Va. At the age of just 5 years old, Chloe was diagnosed with Leukemia. After 2.5 years of treatment, we are thankful that Chloe is a very
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Our daughter, Meredith, was diagnosed with Hepatoblastoma almost five years ago in late September, 2015. Before her diagnosis, we knew almost nothing about pediatric cancer and we knew even less about how it would change our family’s life forever. Pediatric
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Knox Thomas was born on September 10, 2011. Around the time Knox was 6 months old, I started getting concerned that something was wrong with him because he would not sit up. But he was pulling himself up and doing
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This story is about two sisters. Bridget is 14 years old and just celebrated 11 years off treatment for Pleuropulmonary Blastoma. When Bridget was two, she was diagnosed with this very rare form of genetic lung cancer. At that time
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Bryce was diagnosed with stage 4 malignant rhabdoid tumor of the liver when he was 15 months old. Our little boy went from a happy, healthy toddler, to fighting for his life in just a couple short weeks. We spent
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Dr. Brenda Weigel named Chair of CureSearch Scientific Advisory Council Bethesda, MD – August 26, 2020 – CureSearch for Children’s Cancer announces that Brenda Weigel, MD, has been appointed as the new chair of the CureSearch Scientific Advisory Council. The Council is comprised of best-in-class
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