Childhood Cancer Talk Radio interviews Jesse Shumaker, founder of The Cure Starts Now Nebraska Chapter upon the loss of his 8 year old daughter Madelyn, who was afflicted with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). The Cure Starts Now is non-profit charitable organization dedicated to funding DIPG research, raising well…
June 11, 2016 Los Angeles CA–This Afternoon the Angel Runner hits the pavement of Anaheim to arrive at Angel’s Stadium at approximately 3pm. She’ll circle three times in memory of Katie King, aka Katherine the Brave, a little 7-yr old girl from Placentia who succumbed to DIPG on 6/6/2016 around 7:30pm in her…
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…
Who will be its champion??? An Angel Story Where to begin… Well, it begins with an ending. Two weeks before my son died, he was visited by angels. “Two white ghosts” he called them, and though he’d been scared, they sure did make him laugh. I assumed he was with…
#KatherinetheBrave #runforDIPG #HRes586 #LosAngeles For immediate release June 7, 2016 Los Angeles CA–Today the Angel Runner hits the pavement of downtown Los Angeles in memory of Katie King, aka Katherine the Brave, a little 7-yr old girl from Placentia who, sadly, succumbed to DIPG last evening 6/6/2016 around 7:30pm in…
Morgan Platt, 12 years old, 5 year survivor of GBM from Avon CT tells CCTR about her finishing a fundraiser for her two favorite charities, to the tune of $14,000. Truly and inspiration, Morgan undergoes continuing chemotherapy and is beset by many sleepless nights and nausea…but her bright and shining…
For immediate release Relay for Jack: Local Communities come together in support of National DIPG Awareness Week May 24, 2016, Santa Clarita, CA—HRes586 was introduced to the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on January 13, 2016, by Congressman Steve Knight (R-CA-25) the day after the Moonshot Initiative was…
Kathy Riley talks to CCTR about We Can Pediatric Brain Tumor Network, which began 20 years ago with the support and camaraderie between mothers of pediatric brain tumor patients. The support and healing which came from their sharing was so helpful that they wanted to share it with others. The…
Max Wallace, President and CEO of ABC2–Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, talks about founder and venture capitalist Dan Case who had been afflicted with, and ultimately died of brain cancer. ABC2 has for a model Dan’s genius for taking risks fearlessly and applying the venture approach to brain cancer research and…
To President Barack Obama: Thursday May 5, 2016 I had the pleasure of meeting with Fae Jencks in the Office of Science and Technology this last Tuesday regarding an Awareness Resolution currently in the House of Representatives, HRes586, designating the 4th week of May to be National DIPG Awareness Week. …
