A blog about children’s cancer survivors, fighters and supporters,
and the cancer research that accelerates the search for cures.
“We were fortunate that CureSearch had just launched their Catapult Award program….It enabled researchers to access up to $2.5M in funding over three years, through a streamlined application process, rather than contending with multiple applications for smaller grants which would have lengthened […]
By Caitlyn Barrett, PhD – CureSearch National Director of Research & Programs At CureSearch, we’re focused on driving the most innovative new therapies towards clinical trials where they’ll directly impact children in treatment today. Simply put, if a project can’t
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Ryan is currently a 5-year-old boy undergoing treatment for diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DLGNT) at the University of Virginia (UVA). Diagnosed in March of 2019, Ryan’s family has traveled to various hospitals in hopes of a treatment to cure him,
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Alex, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in 2012. Alex and his family have been participating in the CureSearch Walk since 2013. Their team — The A Team — has raised more than $127,000 to date! Alex is now 16 years
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High school sophomore raises $6,000 for children’s cancer research through the Virtual Baxter Trails CureSearch Hike, founded by Harlan’s Heroes When Elyse Johnson, a sophomore at Charlotte Country Day School, learned that a family friend, Margaux, had been diagnosed with
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When her daughter Kaitlyn was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), Stacey Jenkins was told that the cancer was likely to take her life within six to ten months. She learned that this deadly cancer attacks the area of the brain that controls
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Nitin was diagnosed when he was in seventh grade with Medulloblastoma. He went through a 10 hour surgery, 6 weeks of radiation and a year long of chemotherapy. Besides the side affects of chemo radiation, he is doing very well
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Jack, born in the Bronx and raised in Glen Rock, NJ, was a 19 year old college student who had just finished his freshman year when he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, an aggressive and rare bone cancer. Jack passed away
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We lost our oldest son Owen on April 4, 2019 exactly 24 hours after his diagnosis of T-cell Leukemia at UVA. He was two weeks shy of turning 9 years old. Owen was a loving older brother and super active.
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I was introduced to the ugly world of childhood cancer when my cousin, Alisa Finley, was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 16. Over the next couple of years, I watched her fight and fight but always still
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