News & Updates

Delayed Diagnosis for Children with Cancer

By Guest Bloggers CAC2 Member Susan Guisto (Friends of Cathryn Foundation) and Judith G. Villablance, MD, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Every year, approximately 1 in 10,500 children from birth to 15 years of age are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. Most pediatricians will likely encounter only one to [...]

CC Community News Digest (June 29-July 5)

July 5, 2021 CAC2 Community News No comments yet

Assorted news from the last week: Children conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART) were not at increased risk of developing cancer later on, according to results of a prospective study. More than a third of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors reported being hesitant about vaccination against COVID-19 in […]

CC Community News Digest (June 15-28)

June 28, 2021 CAC2 Uncategorized No comments yet

Assorted news from the last week: U.S. News & World Report released this year’s rankings of the top pediatric cancer hospitals in the United States. National Cancer Institute Director Ned E. Sharpless assesses how far we’ve come in the fight against cancer in 50 years and how much further we […]

CC Community News Digest (June 8-14)

June 14, 2021 CAC2 Uncategorized No comments yet

Assorted news from the last week: In a new study led by Yale Cancer Center researchers, neuromuscular dysfunction is found to be prevalent in long-term childhood cancer survivors, continues to increase post-therapy, and is associated with adverse health and socioeconomic outcomes. The findings were published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, [...]

CC Community News Digest (June 1-7)

June 7, 2021 CAC2 Community News No comments yet

Assorted news from the last week: Late Effects Surveillance System-Study Scan is an online publication that follows survivorship issues. Click here for the latest edition, which includes several abstracts from late-effects research studies. New Research about Ewing Sarcoma: Researchers have discovered a gene, OTUD7A, that impacts the development of Ewing [...]

CC Community News Digest (May 25-31)

June 1, 2021 CAC2 Community News No comments yet

Assorted news from the last week: FDA issues its final guidance on the RACE Act and specifies when sponsors must conduct pediatric studies for new cancer drugs as well as when those requirements can be waived or deferred. CAC2 Supporting Organization Day One Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: DAWN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical [...]

CC Community News Digest (May 10-24)

May 24, 2021 CAC2 Community News No comments yet

Assorted news from the last week: Thanks to a funding partnership among CAC2 Members, Spada Pediatric Sarcoma Foundation and Sam Day Foundation created theEwing Sarcoma Research Fund with a starting corpus of $250,000 within the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium. This fund will help drive genomic sequencing for kids battling Ewing [...]

CAC2 Members Launch Joint-Funding Initiative for Ewing Sarcoma

May 17, 2021 CAC2 Collaborative Achievements, Member Blogs No comments yet

By Guest Blogger CAC2 Member Sarah Bartosz Nearly one year ago, Gold In September (G9) joined forces with Beat Nb to become Beat Childhood Cancer, a single organization building research infrastructure, funding precision medicine, and growing the conversation to champion gold awareness. With belief in parent impact as a [...]

Primer on State Cancer Action Plans Training Meeting

May 14, 2021 CAC2 CAC2 News, Community News No comments yet

State-level advocacy is becoming a big opportunity across the country as it gives advocates another way to get involved in addition to going to DC. This has been more and more apparent over the last year as people haven't felt comfortable traveling as much. The Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2) [...]

Improving Time to Diagnosis for Pediatric and Young Adult Cancer Patients

May 11, 2021 CAC2 Webinars No comments yet

We were pleased to present the May All-Member Webinar on May 12. Sue Guisto (Friends of Cathryn Foundation) and Steve Crowley helped us host a speaker program that included Drs. David Walker and Scott Coven speaking on Improving Time to Diagnosis for Pediatric and Young Adult Cancer Patients The presentation addressed [...]