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 essential functions—breathing, chewing, swallowing, hearing, taste and balance—and surgery was not an option. In December 2010, Stacey and her family entered this terrifying new world, and …
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 October 2017 after a 16 month battle, one month short of his 21st birthday. When …
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. He was active in Cub Scouts as well as having just joined soccer. His favorite …
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 smiling. I’d see her and her mom’s posts on Facebook about her battle and I …
Brady was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia on 12/24/2014. He had just turned two years old on December 20, and we found ourselves hearing the words “Your son has cancer” just a couple days later. It completely changed our world. Brady’s subtype was M7 which made his type of leukemia even harder to treat because …
This past May 1st marked the ten year anniversary of Eloise’s death. It has been a decade of making adjustments in our personal lives yet we remain hopeful and forever grateful. My family has dedicated our best efforts in assisting Curesearch in any way that we can. We have participated in more than a dozen …
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Our son Steven was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia when he was 8 years old. Our healthy, athletic second child of four children felt ill at a local summer day camp. We took him to the doctor thinking he may have strep throat but when the doctor saw red dots on his chest they …
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 pink, purple, and sparkly. Three months after her second birthday, a tummy ache eventually led …
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 cancer steals almost everything about a normal childhood. In the case of our young daughter, …
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 everything else an almost 7 month old baby should be doing. I remember saying something …
