Tag Archives: ALL

Cord Blood, a life line

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Team Captain

We are living in truly amazing times as scientists are just beginning to understand the power of stem cells. In particular, cord blood stem cells are providing new hope to cancer patients throughout the world. At Save the Cord Foundation, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Childhood Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Rare Disease, Uncategorized, young adults | Tagged #SAVEtheCORD, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, ALL, autism, BeTheMatch, bone marrow, cerebral palsy, Cord blood registries, cord blood stem cells, donor, Dylan Praskins, FDA, Graft Versus Host Disease, GVHD, HIV, Leukemia, lymphoma, match, MDSacquired hearing loss, Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Neutropenia, Noah Swanson, perinatal stroke, public donation program, Save the Cord Foundation, sickle cell anemia, stem cells, transplant | 1 Comment

NIH Budget Priorities

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Team Captain

Each decade we lose more than 27,000 children to childhood cancer, another 120,000 suffer impacts of treatments including secondary cancers. This picture has not improved much over the past 30 years and it will continue to change only incrementally, if … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Childhood Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Rare Disease | Tagged acute lymphoblastic leukemia, AIDS, ALL, Alzheimer’s research, Antimicrobial Resistance, Appropriations Committee, AT/RT, Brain initiative, chemotherapy, Congress, Declan Carmical, DIPG, Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. William Carroll, federal research dollars, Health & Human Services and Education, hearing problems, heart problems, infertility, Labor, learning disabilities, National Cancer Institute, National Institues of Healt, NCI, NIH, Precision Medicine Initiative, secondary cancers, Senate, StandUp2Cancer, stunted growth | 6 Comments

Survivor 2nd Edition

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Team Captain

In our first edition of Survivor, we followed a typical group of 36 kids that were diagnosed on one day with childhood cancer. We used 36 kids because when the first article was written, in the United States, on average … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancer, Childhood Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Rare Disease | Tagged Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, ALL, American Cancer Society, AML, Astrocytoma, Brain Tumor, cardiac disease, Central Nervous Syatem, chemotherapy, CNS, Cranial radiation therapy, cyclophosphamide, DIPG, Ependymoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Hodgkin Lymphoma, Joe Baber, Medulloblastomia, Neoplasms, neuroblastoma, Non Hodgkins Lymphoma, osteosarcoma, Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors, radiation, Retinoblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, Testicular Germ Cell Tumors, Wilms tumor | 7 Comments

Advocacy and Direction

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Team Captain

Lately, I have wondered whether or not the childhood cancer community is on the right track overall. By this, I mean, is the direction of the community in terms of raising money, awareness and the manner of funding research the … Continue reading →