The Difference of a Decade: A Conversation with Childhood Cancer Advocate Jonathan Agin

This edition of Childhood Cancer Talk Radio gives a personal look at the landscape of childhood cancer advocacy over recent years, between parents of children afflicted with brain cancer.Ā  For this, I have the honor of sharing conversation and perspective with fellow advocate Jonathan Agin, whose participation in the childhoodā€¦

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Keith Desserich and The Cure Starts Now

Keith Desserich, co-founder of The Cure Starts Now worldwide charity for pediatric brain tumor research, joins us today at this hopeful new year’s beginning. When Keith and his wife Brooke found out that their beautiful daughter Elena had DIPG, a devastating pediatric brain tumor, there were no dedicated clinical trials,ā€¦

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Urgency of Need: Awareness and Research for Pediatric Brain Cancer, with Steven Healey

Steven Healey shares the inspiration behind the foundation, his beautiful, forever-5 year old daughter Brooke who’s life lasted just eight months post diagnosis of DIPG, a deadly pediatric brain cancer. Healey describes the harrowing experience as a parent, but also about a new-found community of families dedicated to funding researchā€¦

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Virtual Running Event Benefits Pediatric Cancer Research and offers Global Support for the 2017 National DIPG Awareness Resolution

From anywhere in the world, all are welcome to participate in the ā€œVirtual Relay for Jackā€ event, supporting a research project for DIPG, the leading cause of death in children with brain cancer.Ā  The event also provides a rallying point for the groundbreaking National DIPG Awareness Resolution which addresses theā€¦

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Feb. 4 CCTalkRadio: Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute

Thursday, Feb. 4 at 4pm EST, CCTR interviews Jonathan Agin, Development Liaison and General Counsel for the Childrenā€™s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, or CC-TDI, a non-profit biotech company dedicated to eradicating childhood cancer in all forms.Ā  Jonathan is an attorney by trade and has become one of the United Statesā€¦

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DIPG Awareness Week in California, May 25-31

Wednesday, May 20, Santa Clarita, CA–DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, is a pediatric brain tumor that is invariably terminal with no progress made to that effect in over 35 years of clinical record. Ā DIPG is responsible for roughly 80% of pediatric brain tumor deaths annually[1], the leading cause of cancer-relatedā€¦

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