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Vincristine Shortage – Note To Pediatric Oncologists

by Dean Crowe | Oct 17, 2019

Dear Pediatric Oncologists, As I’m sure you’re aware, the vincristine shortage is very real. But what I want you to know is that I am sorry. I know this is hard—hard on the families who can’t get vincristine for their kids, but also hard on you as these precious children’s doctors. My heart breaks for the families and for you. It cannot be easy to look a parent and a child in eye and tell them that they will not be able to get vincristine, the very medicine you told them they needed to save...

Vincristine Shortage – Update and Action

by Peter Adamson MD | Oct 16, 2019

To the childhood cancer community: As Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), I am sending this letter to the childhood cancer community to share information we have related to the current vincristine drug shortage, summarize steps we understand are being taken to help resolve the shortage, and to propose an approach that would benefit from an advocacy effort to help address the ongoing challenge of drug shortages that directly impact children with cancer. Vincristine ShortageAt the...

A Name that Makes Me Cringe

by Dean Crowe | Aug 9, 2019

I think this is true of just about everyone I know. I know it is true of me. There are just certain names that bring up bad memories. Whether it is a name of someone from way back in the past or maybe someone recently who really upset us or wronged us. When we hear that name, internally we cringe. I have a name that makes me cringe. The name is Sarcoma. It is a nasty type of pediatric and adolescent cancer. July is Sarcoma Awareness Month, so I want to make you aware of why, when I hear this...

I Know I Shouldn’t Hate, but I Do

by Dean Crowe | May 17, 2019

In the United States, cancer is the number one disease killer of children. Yet pediatric cancer isn’t exclusive to America; it’s a global epidemic that affects more than 300,000 children around the world.

International Childhood Cancer Day

by Rally Foundation | Feb 15, 2019

In the United States, cancer is the number one disease killer of children. Yet pediatric cancer isn’t exclusive to America; it’s a global epidemic that affects more than 300,000 children around the world.