CCRF Funds 9 New Research Projects

This September, your generosity, advocacy and awareness-building made a mighty big difference. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CCRF awarded nine new research projects at different institutions across the country. This brings CCRF’s total to over $94 million in research grants nationwide. These 9 new research projects aim to: Investigate how a newly discovered regulatory pathway drives neuroblastoma development and creating targeted therapies to defeat the …

Building the Case for Kids with Hepatoblastoma

Federal funders like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are typically more interested in funding broad health concerns such as HPV or dementia, so rare childhood cancers like hepatoblastoma often do not easily make it onto the radar for research grants. For childhood cancer researchers, less funding means less research and even fewer answers to some of the biggest questions: Why is hepatoblastoma the fastest-growing …

Creating a Clearer Picture of Hepatoblastoma
Joey

Hepatoblastoma is one of the fastest rising childhood cancers in the U.S., yet it’s still considered one of the rarest. It’s so rare, in fact, that epidemiologists like Children’s Cancer Research Fund Chief Medical Advisor Logan Spector, PhD, struggle to find public funding to study the disease. “[Hepatoblastoma is] rising 2–3 percent per year in the U.S.,” said Spector, “and we’ve found reports of the …