Frisco couple hosts first TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation Junior Advisory Board meeting October 4, 2012 – More than a dozen young people, ranging in age from nine to 17 years of age, met at the Frisco home of Joy and Tait Cruse for the inaugural meeting of the TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation Junior Advisory Board. […]
September 9, 2012 – TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation has awarded Dr. Ernesto Flores with the University of California San Francisco San Benioff Children’s Hospital $50,000. This grant will continue funding research focused on integrated genetic and biochemical characterization of hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). According to a ranking by U.S. News & World Report, UCSF […]
September 7, 2012 – TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation kicked off National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month September 1 with a prayer vigil and concert at Watters Creek in Allen. The popular country band Rhythm-n-Roses performed a free concert. Shauna George, an 18-year-old cancer survivor who lives in Little Elm, spoke to the crowd about what it […]
Joy Cruse pens “Hope Transformed” to help raise awareness of the dire need for childhood cancer research funding Joy Cruse is a mom with a mission. She is determined that her son Connor’s death from cancer is not in vain. And she’s committed to keeping her vow to Connor that she’d do everything she could […]
Frisco mom Joy Cruse discloses battle strategy for surviving life’s greatest trials in Hope Transformed Frisco mom Joy Cruse, pregnant with her fourth child in 2005, sat in a Dallas emergency room with her son, Connor, and husband Tait, believing her son’s stomach pain might be appendicitis. When the doctors diagnosed stage IV neuroblastoma, Joy […]
TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation awarded $100,000 to Dr. Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, for his research aimed at implementing T-cell immunotherapy for metastatic osteosarcoma and to help fund vital equipment which will be able to electroporate a large number of T-cells in one setting. “Dr. Cooper’s research is very […]