During the 33rd week of her pregnancy, Kristin Connor was told that her soon to be newborn had a tumor that was diagnosed as Neuroblastoma 30 days after he was born. Her son Brandon is now a fully healthy soon to be 20 year old, who despite many obstacles, never had to actually undergo treatment for his disease and was declared cancer free when he was 2 years old.
During this period and afterwards, Kristin saw too many children of friends pass away from Pediatric Cancer and decided to get involved full time in trying to find a cure for these kids who needed so much help. This resulted in her being named the Director of the CURE Childhood Cancer Foundation which has a mission of trying to find the best ways of less toxic treatments, which will help these patients both now and in the future.