Category: Research

Children’s Cancer Institute to Participate in New Children Oncology Group Leukemia Trials

October 14, 2020

The Hackensack Meridian Children’s Cancer Institute launched two new protocols for patients diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) to identify their best treatment options. The new protocols stems from the Children’s Cancer Institute’s (CCI) partnership with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), an international organization dedicated to pediatric cancer research, and introduces two clinical trials […]

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Tackle Kids Cancer: 5 Years of Making an Impact

August 31, 2020

Five years ago, we began our mission. With only 4% of the national cancer research budget allocated to pediatric cancer, and only three new cancer drugs developed for children in the past twenty years, the team at Hackensack Meridian Health Children’s Cancer Institute recognized the need for a philanthropic program to help increase funding for […]

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Meet Maribel

April 29, 2020

Since early March and in response to COVID-19, we have all had to become more vigilant in infection control.

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TKC Funds Immunotherapy Research

March 9, 2020

In 2019, Tackle Kids Cancer began funding its first lab research. The research, being conducted by Johannes Zakrzewski, M.D., PhD, is examining a new approach to using immunotherapy to fight cancer in children.

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Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Lab

March 6, 2020

Hackensack Meridian Health’s Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) will house a new Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Lab with a focus on central nervous system (CNS) tumors.

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BOMA NJ

January 14, 2020

BOMA NJ held their second Strike Out Cancer fundraiser to benefit Tackle Kids Cancer.

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tackle kids cancer on giving tuesday

Tackle Kids Cancer on Giving Tuesday

November 27, 2018

Bruce Beck updates us on 9-year-old Hayden, one of the inspirational kids he met last year with our friends at Tackle Kids Cancer, and shares how your donation can make a huge difference.

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