Layla Grace Children's Cancer Research Foundation

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These websites can be helpful at various stages of the cancer process. Some provide information on beneficial programs for you and your children.

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In the beginning, there will be a lot for you to process. Keeping a list of what you want to ask your child’s doctor is a good way to make sure you get the information that you need to start making decisions for the treatment plan. Below are some of the questions we thought were important for you to find answers to. Read More…

My child, Jake, was diagnosed with a rare, very aggressive brain cancer in November of 2007. After three years of chemotherapy, radiation, stem cell rescue, three new tumors, and Hospice, he was declared cancer free. He is an inspiration to us all, and I am proud to call myself his mother. I hope what I learned from my experience will benefit you and your child.

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When your child is diagnosed with cancer, you feel like your world has come to an end. There is nothing that will make the situation any less painful, but there are things you can keep in mind to make it a little bit more manageable. These are five things that helped my husband and I the most.

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A cancer diagnosis is difficult at any age. Teenagers and their families face unique challenges with diagnosis, treatment, and beyond. Our son, Bucky, was diagnosed when he was 17 – just at the end of his junior year of high school. He was the high school’s pitcher for the baseball team and they were headed to the playoffs. His pitching arm became strangely sore, so we took him to the doctor. Ten days later we had his diagnosis: Ewing’s Sarcoma. Bucky started chemo immediately, checking into the hospital every other Monday for 3-6 days at a time. He had three surgeries to remove his cancer-filled right radius and reconstruct his arm. This was not the senior year he had planned.

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My son, Ryan, was diagnosed with Anaplastic Ependymoma, a malignant brain tumor, just over a year ago. Thinking about it still makes me want to go insane.  Over and over, I kept questioning, “How could my son have cancer?”  But looking at him now, you would never know that a tumor the size of an orange was removed from his brain in August of last year. Somehow, I managed to maintain my sanity through it all—or at least appeared to.

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