Category: Blog
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UC Davis Health System Employees Team up Against Childhood Cancer
More shavees and donors sought to bolster the region’s 10th annual St. Baldrick’s event in March A team of compassionate and courageous UC Davis Health System employees will go bald this spring to raise money for pediatric cancer research. The team, which currently includes two women and one man, will have their heads shaved on […]
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Keaton Kiddos – Ashleigh
Meet Ashleigh, she was diagnosed at 17 years old with Osteosarcoma. Now at 18 she is such an inspiration as she is currently in treatment but striving to pursue an education and career in oncology to become and inspiration and strength to other kids just like herself.
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Keaton Kiddos – Caleb
Meet Caleb who was diagnosed in 2012 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and is currently in treatment at age 3.
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Family hoping for ‘normal’ Christmas
Caroline, 2, has battled two rare diseases this year By: Sena Christian, The Press Tribune The Christen family plans to spend Christmas together, just the four of them, at home. They decorated a plastic Christmas tree, which they arranged in the living room of their house in Lincoln. “We’re going to keep it quiet and […]
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Holiday party offers reprieve from cancer
Childhood cancer patients and families enjoy surprise visit from Santa For one evening earlier this month, childhood cancer patients and families had a chance to enjoy the holidays without having to think about cancer. The Keaton Raphael Memorial hosted 180 guests from Placer and Sacramento counties during the annual Childhood Cancer Family Holiday Party Dec. […]
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Grant will help children with cancer and their siblings
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Nothing Bundt Cake Granding Opening supports Keaton Raphael Memorial
A new bakery will open soon in Roseville serving up individual and large bundt cakes. First it was cupcakes, and now it may be a bundt cake craze. Nothing Bundt Cakes, a company headquartered in Las Vegas, is opening a bundt cake bakery in Roseville. The grand opening is set for Thursday, Dec. 1. They’ll […]
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Keaton Kiddos – Lily
Lily Age 3 Diagnosis: Lily was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2012 and KRM has provided ongoing financial assistance for their family through the family navigator program utilizing various services such as socialization events adopt a family, and the family was one of the many who participated in Keaton Raphael Memorial’s Thanksgiving turkey distribution supported by […]
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Celebrity stylist visits with young cancer survivor
VIP style event raises funds for Keaton Raphael Memorial Raising funds to help families battling childhood cancer is always in style. More than 125 guests of the Keaton Raphael Memorial got the VIP treatment Saturday and Sunday during the Westfield Style Tour. Read full article as published by Roseville & Granite Bay Press Tribune
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Getting Big Pharma to Treat Childhood Cancers
At age five, some kids have won pee-wee sports championships or perhaps a class spelling bee, but for Luke Fochtman of Okemos, Mich., his fifth birthday marked his victory over a much larger foe — in a life-or-death battle with childhood cancer, Luke has come out on top. “Through 72 weeks of treatment, chemotherapy, 105 […]