Defying the Odds: Anjalie’s Miraculous Journey

Anjalie Bartee was a normal, healthy 17-year-old, a junior in high school in Omaha, NE when she began experiencing headaches and vision changes.  Her doctor thought it might be due to recent changes in her medication, but the condition persisted and worsened; the ophthalmologist detected pressure on the brain and…

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“Moonshot4Kids” at Monje Lab: DIPG Families Advocate for Increased Pediatric Cancer Research Funds

June 7, 2019 | Mia Brozovich Nacke COMMUNITY OUTREACH, EVENTS, PEDIATRICS, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION. Families who have lost children to Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a fatal brain tumor with a median survival of 9-10 months, met with Stanford pediatric neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje to learn about new clinical trials and express…

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A Family Affair: Kendal Brown and her Family in South Carolina

Sandra Brown joins us on Childhood Cancer Talk Radio from Dillon, South Carolina to share the story of her beautiful, 10 year old granddaughter who is fighting brain cancer like a champion. Involved in an ongoing clinical trial for DIPG, Kendal was an honor student this past year, and is…

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‘Champion of Change in Precision Medicine’ Amanda Haddock, President of DragonMaster Foundation

Amanda Haddock spent 11 years of her working career in the non-profit sector and 12 years working in the technology industry, a self-proclamed “serial volunteer” whose son, David, succumbed to GBM in 2012 at the age of 18.  The doctors and researchers they encountered on that journey led her to…

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Team Ellie!

Fifteen-year old Ellie Waters talks with us from the UK about life as a teen with cancer and the challenges of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Ellie has a twin sister Olivia, brother Bailey, and 3 more step-brothers from her parents new marriages.   Mum Samantha joins us also to speak to the…

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Jack’s Story

Jack’s Story Jack, James-William Gregory Demeter, was born a healthy baby boy, 7 lbs-7oz, 22”, a Saturday Night little man at 11:36pm, Aug. 30, 2008. Our Sophie-Marie was nicknamed “Boo” for the little girl in Monster’s Inc, and Jack-Jack was for the little guy from The Incredibles. Needless to say,…

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