Attention: High School seniors and continuing college students The deadline for submitting your scholarship application is Monday, February 28. Please read the section on requirements and get those letters to us today.
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A great big thank you goes out to the Holy Spirit Women’s Guild for their generous support. Santa Rosa’s Holy Spirit Church http://holyspirit-sr.org hosted a talk by Lynda about our support of families with cancer and the women opened their hearts and wallets big time. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
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That’s how I was… …and although my anger has subsided somewhat I’m still very angry that kids get cancer. I heard the advice, though. “The anger will eat you up if you don’t do something about it.” My daughter was still in Consolidation when I started volunteering with CCC (then called Sonoma Children’s Cancer Foundation) [...]
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I always wondered why my daughter took her chemo and entered remission and hasn’t looked back, and why other kids at Children’s Hospital Oakland with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and the same protocol relapsed and sometimes didn’t make it. I’ve been keeping an eye out and here is an article that explains a bit about it, [...]
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Here’s some news from our comrades-in-arms from the southern hemisphere. http://www.acrf.com.au/great-news-from-sydney-researchers-for-childrens-cancer-treatments/
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Here’s a study that confirms what we all know, and why we have our support group meetings. http://biopop.pophealth.wisc.edu/wp/?p=438 Related Articles PTSD shows up in parents of kids with cancer (sfgate.com)
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The CCC Board elected their officers for 2011 at the meeting on Monday 2/7 at The Red Grape. The major change was that Eileen and Tom traded places and Lynda remained in her current position. So, for 2011, Tom is President of the board, Eileen is VP and Lynda remains Sec/Treas.
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