Thank you for supporting me and the more than 300,000 kids worldwide who will be diagnosed with cancer this year. By sharing the gifts of your time, talent and money with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, you're supporting research to give all kids with cancer a better chance for a cure. Danielle Nicole Strachan was diagnosed with AML with a KMT2A mutation at 16 years old. She went through treatment and was able to be in remission but only for a short while, then the cancer was back. This time she went through chemo yet again but now she also had to receive a bone marrow transplant from her older sister Alyssa who happened to be a 100% match and at that time we were told that this gave Danielle a very good chance. So she received her sisters bone marrow and after spending a few more months in the hospital she was finally able to come home and was considered to be in remission. Sadly this again didn’t last very long at all and the cancer came back a third time on April 4, 2023 and by now the doctors told us we had exhausted all of our options for her at CHKD and they said she had had her lifetime amount of chemos they had used on her that “worked” the other times. The type of cancer and mutation Danielle had was both extremely aggressive and extremely rare and without any other options left at this point we were forced to find a clinical trial and just hold onto hope. The clinical trial seemed to be working at first but unfortunately things started to get bad again in September and then by November 4th, 2023 she passed away, just 7 months after being told the cancer was back. Danielle was strong and brave beyond words or measure and she brought laughter and smiles into every room she entered. To know her was to know a true Angel. She was/is the best sister and friend I could’ve ever gotten and I will miss her forever. Please donate to children’s cancer research so that someday we will finally have a cure for them all.