Fighting Osteosarcoma with a Bold Idea When Lily Guenther, M.D., was just starting her career in childhood cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research gave her something big, support to chase a bold idea. She was...
Helping Kids With Cancer Feel Better: How One Doctor’s Research Is Changing Lives When kids go through cancer treatment, they often feel pain, nausea, anxiety and other tough symptoms and side effects. Lillian Sung, M.D., Ph.D., at The Hospital for Sick Children (also...
A Breakthrough for Down Syndrome and Leukemia Kids with Down syndrome are 20 times more likely to get a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Sadly, they also have a harder time with the side effects from treatment. But thanks to early...
From Idea to Impact: How Rally’s Seed Funding Helped Dr. Christian Hurtz Make a Big Discovery When kids get cancer, doctors and scientists work hard to find new and better treatments. But every big discovery starts with seed funding, the first crucial investment that...
Cracking Neuroblastoma’s Code Neuroblastoma is a hard-to-treat cancer that mostly affects kids. One of the biggest challenges is that some of the cancer cells learn to resist treatment, like chemotherapy, and that makes the cancer even harder to beat. With a research...
