Christopher Winters, President of NC3, the National Childhood Cancer Coalition, shares with us his work at the state level culminating 10/25 in the passage of HB46 in the Pennsylvania Legislature. The bill creates the option for individuals to donate from their state income tax refund to pediatric cancer research. In a…
Julie Guillot and Dr. Soheil Meshinchi, an attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital treating children with high-risk leukemias, join us to discuss the innovative and exciting Target Pediatric AML program which promises genomic sequencing for targeted, effective treatment. Dr. Meshinchi oversees the world’s largest pediatric AML tissue repository, located at…
Kerrilee Hall and her 13 year old daughter Tamlin visit with us today from Queensland, Australia. Tamlin is at the 100 day mark post bone-marrow transplant or BMT for BPDCN treatment, or Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, a disease difficult to diagnose as it exhibits traits of leukemia and lymphoma,…
The new children’s book “My Dog Named Hope” is about a special girl, her amazing dog, and a family’s journey through childhood cancer. The story was based on a compilation of the experiences of many childhood cancer families by the author, Joe Dean during his time working for the US…
