What if?

Childhood Cancer Advocacy 101 What if it were your child?  God help you…you’d discover very quickly that the medical research system doesn’t consider your child’s life investment-worthy, that no therapies have been developed for this disease for decades, and that urgency of need and potential years of life lost are…

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Dr. Charles Keller, Scientific Director of cc-TDI, speaks in Los Angeles 5/12/2016

(Taken from cc-TDI.org)  Dr. Keller’s research focuses on the development of more effective, less toxic therapies for childhood cancers. His special interest is advanced disease that has spread beyond the initial location of the cancer. Charles co-chairs the brain tumor developmental therapeutics committee (CNS-DVL) of the Children’s Oncology Group and is…

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CCTR talks to co-Founder Jonathan Agin and Dr. Charles Keller of cc-TDI (Science)

Today’s show features creative solutions to difficulties in treating childhood cancer with the Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, cc-TDI, devoted to making all forms of childhood cancer survivable.  Co-founder, advocate for kids with cancer, and writer Jonathan Agin, and Scientific Director Dr. Charles Keller talk with CCTR.  Learn about a…

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Race for Hope Raises $2 Million

Race for Hope Raises $2 Million for Brain Cancer Research and Honors Vice President Joe Biden From ABC2.org website: http://abc2.org/press-blog/2016/05/race-hope-raises-2-million-brain-cancer-research-and-honors-vice-president-joe   MAY 3, 2016 This past Sunday, 10,000 individuals from across the globe gathered for one purpose – to find and fund a cure for brain cancer.  Together they raised…

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CCTR Presents Congressman Knight’s HRes586 and the Runners Roundtable

CCTR is on the ROAD with the RUN for HRes586! Special guest Congressman Steve Knight explains the importance of this legislation that he authored, National DIPG Awareness Week and more consideration for those in urgent need of solutions, and our kids. A reunion of runners from around the country–Brian Jones,…

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200 Mile Activist Run for HRes586 Makes History for DIPG, Childhood Cancer Awareness, and the State of California

For Immediate Release pdf. version April 19, 2016 Santa Clarita, CA—Ultra-distance runner and activist for children with cancer Everett Smith of Redlands, CA and Janet Demeter of Jack’s Angels in Agua Dulce, CA team up to promote “Action Days” for HRes586 in support of children currently afflicted with DIPG and…

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CCTR Presents, “Realities of DIPG”

Jaime King, mother to Katie(7), aka Katherine the Brave, and Mark Landis, father to Parker (5), describe the realities faced by parents of DIPG-diagnosed children today. DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, is an invariably terminal pediatric brain tumor with no change in treatment protocol for over 40 years. Parents discover…

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CCTR interviews Dr. Kathy Warren(NCI) and Michael Antonellis(NBTS)

CCTR presents Dr. Kathy Warren, top researcher in pediatric neuro-oncology at the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), who discusses the history of DIPG research and the nature of this strange and misunderstood tumor, challenges to treatment, and hopeful new lines of research for effective therapies…

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“Action Days” coming for Kids on Cancer’s Death Row: HRes586 “Chad and Jack’s DIPG Resolution”

After Jack died I learned that DIPG is responsible for most of the brain tumor deaths in children, so, how many have to die until their lives are worth saving? April 2, 2016 Santa Clarita, CA—The significant rise in awareness for the devastating lack of funding for research into causes…

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