St. Baldrick's Foundation celebrating 25th year in Chicago
The St. Baldrick's Foundation, the largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants in the U.S., is celebrating its 25th year in Chicago.
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The St. Baldrick's Foundation, the largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants in the U.S., is celebrating its 25th year in Chicago.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital this week launched a new advanced leukemia program.
The Chicago Open Water Swim will take place on August 9 at Ohio Street Beach.
New advances in cancer research and treatment in dogs is also helping treatment for people, too.
Danielle Campfield-Carter, a 34-year-old uterine cancer survivor, will participate in the walk.
"Alligators are really good at treating these things, and not getting cancer, and repairing chromosomes. So we're trying to figure all this out," said alligator expert Frank Robb, who caught Chance in Humboldt Park in 2019.
Thanks to the donation, the facility will be named the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion when it opens in 2027.
More than 1,600 people are spending this weekend on their bikes, all to raise money to fight cancer!
