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Girls’ trip! If you’re like me, you’ll look for any excuse to plan a getaway with a good friend. So when my BFF and I set out to finally fulfill a lifelong desire to see epic Niagara Falls we knew we had to add a twist. Spoiler alert, we got to see the majestic falls but the best memories we brought back were of the welcoming smiles we were greeted with along the way.

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Tahj Holden, father to Cole, Max and Lennox reflects with honesty and vulnerability on the aftermath of losing his son Max to childhood cancer and offers suggestions on how we can all help dads who have lost children. Sometimes it can be as simple a gesture as asking them to share a story. Read more

On March 11th, we were scheduled to have our 7th annual Chefs for Kids’ Cancer event. After months of planning and coordination, we were hours away from welcoming 600 guests, 70 chefs, a team of sommeliers and mixologists and poised to have a record-breaking night of raising money for pediatric cancer research. The event is now postponed indefinitely. Read more

Tahj Holden is a husband, a banker, a basketball coach and a two-time NCAA champ—but above all, he's a dad. Don't miss his heartfelt Father's Day reflection on being blessed in life with three sons—one lost to cancer. Read more

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted over $17 million to date, funding over 100 research projects that have resulted in 25 treatments and clinical ... Read more

Both of my sisters had childhood cancer when I was growing up so I spent more time than most thinking about the impact of cancer on families and wanting to invest my energies in improving outcomes for such children. Read more

Why did you want to get into pediatric cancer research? Because pediatric cancer research is very focused on cures, not merely on extending survival.

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I can still remember my excitement when I discovered research involving humans (rather than the study of animals and plants) when I was an undergraduate in the UK. I immediately wanted to become involved in human research and studied immunology and virology. Read more

Thanks to Cookies' funding, we discovered drugs that work well against "RAS" mutations, which led to Novartis supporting a clinical trial that is ongoing.  Read more

I thought I wanted to be a Pediatric Cardiologist, but when I was doing my clinical rotations as a medical student, I just fell in love with the oncology patients. I wanted to do everything I could to help them and their families. Read more

We have developed a cancer therapy that uses natural killer (NK) cells, a type of white blood cell with excellent tumor killing capacity and a unique ability to distinguish normal tissues in the body. The NK cells safely target both the tumor environment and sarcoma-associated proteins in a special way that allows them to destroy cancer but leave normal tissues alone. We will test the ability of these NK cells to kill tumors safely in laboratory models, and then make preparations to test safety and effectiveness in kids with sarcoma. Read more

We can’t thank you enough for your generous support of pediatric cancer research.  It has been essential to the success of our work and that of so many other researchers. Now, more than ever, we cannot lose sight of the fact that cancer is the leading cause of death from disease in school-age children in the U.S.  We need to continue in our fight against these terrible diseases. Read more