What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant?

What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant?

What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant? You just learned that your child has to have a bone marrow transplant. It sounds ominous. You have a lot of questions. Like, what exactly is bone marrow and what is a bone marrow transplant? Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue...
Rally Career Development Award Update

Rally Career Development Award Update

Rally Career Development Award Update An Update on the $300,000 Rally Career Development Award to Dr. Rodriguez-Blanco for Medulloblastoma Research In December 2022, Rally Foundation’s COO Reid Crowe presented a $300,000 Career Development Research Grant to Dr....
What Is a Lumbar Puncture? What is a Spinal Tap?

What Is a Lumbar Puncture? What is a Spinal Tap?

What Is a Lumbar Puncture? What is a Spinal Tap? It’s scary enough to have your child diagnosed with cancer. But on top of that you hear all these new words and terms, which can be overwhelming, such as lumbar puncture or spinal tap. A lumbar procedure is the same...
What is Chemotherapy?

What is Chemotherapy?

What is Chemotherapy? You just found out that your child has cancer. And that chemotherapy is part of the treatment plan. Most everyone has heard of chemotherapy. But what is it really? Chemotherapy is any drug used to stop the growth of cancer cells. Chemotherapy is...
What is Radiation?

What is Radiation?

What is Radiation? Radiation therapy is targeted energy used to destroy cancer cells, shrink tumors and/or alleviate certain cancer-related symptoms. Radiation therapy uses high-energy X-rays and other forms of radiation therapy to damage the DNA in cancer cells,...

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