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If you have not had a child suffer from cancer, you must watch this video to get the real picture of what it is like. It takes only 8 minutes, but it will be the best 8 minutes you will spend in order to understand what is happening to our kids and what we can do about it.Click photo below to see The Truth365 Video
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Cord Blood, a life line
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
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NIH Budget Priorities
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
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Survivor 2nd Edition
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
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Advocacy and Direction
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
Posted in Cancer, Childhood Cancer, Pediatric Cancer, Rare Disease, Uncategorized
Tagged advocate, ALL, DIPG, HR 2019, Jonathan Agin, Kids First Research Act, Lobbyist, National Cancer Institute
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