Childhood Cancer, Rally Blog, Rally Researchers, Success Stories
INSTRuCT Database for Rhabdomyosarcoma Impact Rally is proud to be the initial funder for the creation of the INSTRuCT Database with a Consortium Grant to Dr. Sam Volchenboum of the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC) at the University of Chicago. Recent advances in...
Childhood Cancer, Families, Kids, Rally Blog, Rally Stories
My View Looking Forward Before cancer, I was never a morning person, but now I love waking up in my home with the entire family under one roof. Most nights, I wake up around 3 am in a panic. Did I dream up this terrible nightmare that my 4-year-old son had cancer and...
Childhood Cancer, Families, Kids, Rally Blog, Rally Stories, What Is
Discovering the Reality of Childhood Cancer Treatment On our diagnosis day, we were told that our four-year-old Gus had Ewing Sarcoma. What doctors didn’t know was the particular type or variant he had. Tumor Sequencing Tumor sequencing is vital, as some variants of...
Childhood Cancer, Families, Rally Blog
Gus’ Journey Through Cancer Gus, my 4-year-old son, was chasing me down the stairs on our way to the basement for our early morning workout. This particular morning, Gus jumped from the stairs onto the floor and took an extra step. Something seemed off, but he...
Rally Blog, Rally Researchers, Research, Success Stories
Research for Recurrent Brain Tumors Shows Promising Preliminary Results As a Rally Researcher and the primary investigator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gregory Friedman, M.D. is devoted to studying malignant brain tumors in hopes of developing new and...