Children's Cancer Cause

10/12/2026

Scientific progress has brought new possibilities for children with cancer, but too many families still face limited treatment options and lasting health challenges. The recently released Pediatric Cancer Landscape 2026, a joint report from ACS CAN and the Alliance for Childhood Cancer, examines these gaps and offers policy recommendations to help move research and drug development forward.

Children’s Cancer Cause is proud to contribute as an Alliance member, with our founder, Susan L. Weiner, PhD, serving on the report’s steering committee. Dr. Weiner was part of the committee that authored the original Landscape Report published in 2016. The updated recommendations call for sustained research investment, stronger data sharing, more accessible clinical trials, and solutions to drug-development barriers and chronic shortages -- all with healthy survivorship as a priority.

In our latest blog post, we explore the report’s highlights and how this shared advocacy agenda can inform our work as we look ahead to a new Congress:

A decade of scientific progress has brought new possibilities for children with cancer. But too many families continue to face diagnoses with few effective treatment options, and the majority of survivors live with lasting effects of the therapies that saved their lives. The newly released Pediat

10/08/2026

🎉 Put your DAF to work for kids with cancer and survivors this DAF Day!

Your Donor-Advised Fund or DAF is like a charitable savings account. You’ve already set aside the money to give. Now you get to decide where it can make a difference. 🧡

A DAF grant to Children’s Cancer Cause can help:

🎓 Provide scholarships for childhood cancer survivors
📣 Give families and survivors a voice in D.C.
💻 Provide free survivorship resources and education
🔬 Advocate for more research and safer treatments for children with cancer

Your DAF is ready to do good. Put it to work today.

👉 Make your DAF Day gift or just learn more about DAFs. See link in the comments.

10/07/2026

We recently surveyed 105 childhood cancer survivors, most of whom are now young adults. They are asking for clearer guidance, more research, and systems built for lifelong care.

What can policymakers, healthcare systems, researchers, and survivor-serving organizations do better? Here are their suggestions.

🔗 Follow link in comments for key findings and to explore the full report.

10/06/2026

Breast Cancer Awareness Month has an important connection to childhood cancer survivorship. 🩷🎗️

Some treatments for childhood cancer - including chest radiation and certain chemotherapy drugs - can increase the risk of breast cancer later in life. Depending on treatment history, survivors may need screening earlier than the general population.

If you’re a childhood cancer survivor and you're unsure about your personal risk and screening guidelines, bring your treatment summary or survivorship care plan to your healthcare provider and ask about it.

Survivors deserve clear information and follow-up care tailored to their needs. Join us in raising awareness about the lasting effects of childhood cancer and the importance of access to lifelong survivorship care.

10/03/2026

This new report updates the 2016 landscape assessment and examines the challenges facing childhood cancer research and drug development. Our founder Susan Weiner, PhD, served on the steering committee for the original report and also this 2026 update.

The new report is accompanied by policy recommendations that call for sustained investment in pediatric research and clinical trial networks; better collection and sharing of data so researchers can learn from every patient; more flexible approaches to studying treatments for rare cancers; and policies that encourage pediatric drug development and address shortages of essential medicines.

We look forward to sharing more details in the coming days, and we congratulate the Steering Committee, report authors, reviewers, and contributors for this comprehensive publication.

A new joint report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and the Alliance for Childhood Cancer examines the current state of childhood cancer.

09/30/2026

FINAL DAY: Your gift will be doubled. 💛

Today is the final day of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and your last chance to have your gift matched by the Rosen Family.

Give $50 → It becomes $100.
Give $100 → It becomes $200.

Your doubled gift helps fuel research, advocacy, and support for childhood cancer survivors and families.

Make today count for children with cancer and survivors. Give by midnight and double your impact. Link in comments to donate!

09/29/2026

There’s still time to make your Childhood Cancer Awareness Month gift count twice. 💛

Your support helps fuel research, strengthen advocacy, and provide resources and opportunities for childhood cancer survivors and families.

But time is running out. The Rosen Family will match your gift dollar for dollar only through September 30!

You can turn awareness into action and make twice the impact.

Give today → Double your gift → See link in comments

09/28/2026

From the power of CureFest to action on Capitol Hill, September in DC showed what our community can accomplish when personal stories and persistent advocacy meet.

Our CEO Steve reflects on our blog about the people he met this month, the policy work ahead, and what it means to make September about more than awareness.

Read his post:

Stepping onto the National Mall in the nation’s capital, it’s impossible not to be affected by the sanguine beauty of the nearly seven-acre Constitution Gardens Pond. As participants entered CureFest on the edge of the National Mall, a tribute wall ran all along the dirt walkway and the images o...

09/26/2026

Our new Survivor Survey report comes during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and at a consequential time for federal cancer research. Survivors responding to the survey repeatedly urged policymakers to protect research funding, develop less toxic treatments, and devote greater attention to the lifelong consequences of childhood cancer treatment.

“Please fund survivorship research and long-term follow-up care just as much as you fund initial treatment research,” one survivor wrote. “We don't disappear after we ring the bell - we live with the consequences of treatment for decades.”

Just 6% of surveyed survivors express satisfaction with today’s federal government in addressing the needs of young adult survivors of childhood cancer. One respondent described recent funding cuts and uncertainty around medical research as “massively destabilizing.”

Survivors also called for better transitions from pediatric to adult healthcare, affordable insurance coverage for lifelong screenings and follow-up, greater mental health support, and policies addressing the educational, employment and financial consequences of childhood cancer.

Follow link in comments for more key findings and to explore the full report.

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09/25/2026

Maurquez was six years old when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Maurquez has overcome tremendous adversity and carries a deep passion for serving his community and fighting for justice. Today, he's a first-generation college student in his final year at Stanford University and a three-time Children’s Cancer Cause College Scholar.

He’s also using his experience to serve others.

Last spring, Maurquez organized a community blood drive on campus. The response was remarkable: 92 donors participated, 61 of them giving blood for the first time. The drive collected 81 units of blood, potentially helping up to 243 people.

And he’s not stopping there. Maurquez has also helped childhood cancer survivors navigate college admissions and scholarships, and his latest give-back projects help fund tutoring sessions for kids receiving treatment and purchase art supplies for patients.

As Maurquez says, “These projects are rooted in the gaps I witnessed firsthand as a childhood cancer survivor.”

This September - - we celebrate survivors like Maurquez who make the road a little easier for those who come after them. We're so honored to be a part of his story 🎗️