University of California, San Francisco – In Partnership with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation$195,000 over two years Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is the most common form of childhood cancer, and thanks to decades of research, most children diagnosed today are curable. Yet children whose leukemia returns after an initial response face high-risk, hard-to-treat disease, and many do [...]
I stare at my boys. Usually when they are sleeping, or if I can get a longer glimpse of them during a quiet moment in my head, and I think about what kind of lives they will have. I want them to be kids as long as possible. To have fun and ask to “play” with their friends. I [...]
May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month, and it is represented by the gray ribbon. Of course, childhood cancer, in general, is represented by the gold ribbon, so we are joining several like-minded pediatric brain tumor nonprofits in Going Gold AND Gray Every Day. Ty is one of the thousands of children who lost his life to [...]
Help us send lockets to 100 bereaved moms this May, in honor of Mother's Day. Sadly, seven children die of cancer every single day in the US alone. Since losing Ty, this locket has adorned almost every outfit his mother wears so she can feel that she "carries his heart" with her wherever she goes. We [...]
