Childhood Cancers

I am privileged and honored to nominate Miami Cancer Institute (MCI) pediatric oncology nurse Alicia De Pazos, RN, CPHON, for the 2019 CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award. Alicia has been a pediatric oncology nurse for over 32 years. In that time, she has held many different positions — all in the pediatric oncology setting.

Cancer can bring about post-traumatic stress disorder that can linger for many years in both survivors of childhood cancer and their parents.

This essay, written by oncology nurse Karen Leary, Ruth & Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, nominates fellow registered nurse and colleague Megan Lackaye for CURE®’s 2019 Extraordinary Healer® Award.

What a force they were, those two daughters of ours: that little nine-year-old kid Valerie, gone from bone cancer and the more grown-up 37-year-old Stacy, cut off by breast cancer. When we talk of them, however, it is often with a slight grin.

$600,000 grant awarded over three years at Boston Children’s Hospital.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research and ESPN Hall of Fame Sportscaster Dick Vitale are pleased to announce the 14^th Annual Dick Vitale Gala raised more than $4.3 million for pediatric cancer research.

"Caitlin is an exceptionally talented and gifted nurse who has the rare and enviable combination of empathy, curiosity, intellectual fortitude and social acumen that has made her an extraordinary healer and leader," said James LaBelle, M.D., Ph.D., in the winning essay nominating Caitlin Cohen, M.S.N., RN, CPNP-AC, CPHON for the CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award for Oncology Nursing.

The winner of the CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award for Oncology Nursing discussed the bonds formed between patients with cancer and their health care team.

An interview with Caitlin Cohen, M.S.N., RN, CPNP-AC, CPHON, winner of the CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award.

A hospital whose mission is to cure children’s catastrophic diseases is not only providing treatment, but also conducting research and making new medicines. Now, in addition to improving its patient-care and research capabilities, it plans to reach into low-income countries to help cure more children with cancer.