by Gaylon Hayden | Jul 3, 2023 | News
I was diagnosed with breast cancer on Christmas Eve, 2007, at 4:10 PM. I began to go to Dr. Ingrid A. Meyer, the Director of Breast Cancer at Vanderbilt. Every visit, Dr. Meyer would share a childhood cancer statistic with me. I had no idea until she told me breast...
by Gaylon Hayden | Aug 24, 2020 | News
Growing up, I never heard of a child diagnosed with cancer. Not a day goes by now that I don’t hear of someone newly diagnosed with cancer, whether a child, adolescent, or adult. What should be uncommon has become a common occurrence in the world we are living...
by Gaylon Hayden | Mar 6, 2020 | News
On New Year’s Day, 2017, Kendall James’ parents, Shawn and Kendra James, got the news no parent would ever want to hear, “Your child has cancer!” Kendall was sent to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN,...
by Gaylon Hayden | Mar 4, 2020 | News
How Book for Hope Helps Families with Children Battling Cancer Book for Hope became a 501 (c) (3) childhood cancer organization in January 2015. The mission statement of Book for Hope is to raise childhood cancer awareness, financially assist families with a...
by Gaylon Hayden | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Everyone Has a Dream Everyone has a dream, not everyone’s may be the same. If I were asked what my dream was it would be to tell one person how unknowingly important childhood cancer awareness is. Because when you tell one person that person tells another person who...
