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R01 Grants and Wilms Tumor Research: A Decade of Setbacks and Why These Critical Funding Gaps Matter
Here’s the heartbreaking reality: Wilms tumor, the most common abdominal childhood cancer & most common tumor affecting the kidneys, hasn’t received an R01 grant in over 10 years. Every child deserves the best chance at a future, and research is how we get there....
Pediatric Cancer Predisposition: One Family’s Shared Experience
"Ralphie’s nine-year-old sister was not identified as having a cancer predisposition syndrome until after she had been diagnosed with cancer, Wilms tumor, twice. By that time cancer filled her little body, displacing her liver, traveling throughout her abdomen,...
Ewings Sarcoma Survivor’s Mom Shares Why Blood Donations Matter
"I started donating blood when I was in high school, in a probably ill-advised scheme to work past my fear of needles." - Aimee Formo Aimee, an incredibly well-versed and passionate childhood cancer mom and advocate currently residing in Indiana, shares with...
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