Tag Archives: Carson Leslie Foundation

Collaboration to Cure Medulloblastoma

  Editor’s Note: In recognition of Brain Cancer Awareness Month, we are publishing an article that was reported in the April 24, 2019 ASCO Daily News. It highlights the massive collaborative efforts by private foundations such as the Carson Leslie … Continue reading

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Texas Proud!

Annette Leslie, Executive Director of the Carson Leslie Foundation and a Four Square Clobbers Cancer blogger, has served on The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Childhood Cancer Advisory Council since 2010 and couldn’t be more Texas Proud! … Continue reading

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Never Ever Capitalize “cancer”

Every Year in September during the Childhood Cancer Summit and CureFest I remember five years ago, meeting Carson’s mother and Max’s grandfather. Richard Plotkin, a retired lawyer, read a book written by Annette Leslie’s, then 17 year-old son, Carson. He was … Continue reading

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