For the love of Aspen, diagnosed 6/20/2020 at the age of 4 with DIPG, a terrifying childhood brain cancer, father Ryan, mother Allison, and Aunt Tristin join us to share what this journey has been like as we are precariously close to the discovery of a cure. Along with grandfather…
–The Arms Wide Open Cancer Foundation newsletter Dec. 31, 2020 Celebrating good news for the childhood cancer community! A string of successes at the federal level to wrap up 2020! Happy New Year! Though 2020 was a very challenging year, the childhood cancer community celebrated many hard-fought victories in November…
From our friends at National Brain Tumor Society: Your advocacy has made a difference! Over the last year, despite the many challenges presented by the COVID pandemic, you took action, shared your story, and helped to highlight the urgent needs of the brain tumor community. The results of that work…
ENERGY AND COMMERCE NEWSROOM, Chairman Frank Pallone, 116th Congress FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2020 CONTACT CJ Young (202) 225-5735 Pallone and Eshoo on House Passage of Ten Health Care Bills Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released…
Oncoceutics Receives Foundation Grants to Establish an Expanded Access Program for ONC201 Philadelphia, PA (November 2, 2020) – Oncoceutics, a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company, announced today that it has received grants from Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation, Dragon Master Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation to fund an Expanded…
Meet LeAnna Headley, Childhood Cancer Talk Radio’s Hero of the Week! Our Amazing Fighters started as a simple instagram page in August of 2014 by now 19-year-old LeAnna Headley from Richmond, VA to raise awareness for childhood cancer. Since then it has evolved into so much more than a social…
Meet Anne Beatty from Prattville, Alabama. She retired in December 2019 after teaching for almost 24 years. Sadly, complications from a brain tumor–physical, and social–made retirement unavoidable. Her brain tumor journey began July 4, 2018; she had open heart surgery in February 2018 for a previously undetected congenital heart condition.…
Today’s radio broadcast is a special presentation and sneak peek of part II of a Tribute Video, not yet seen, to DIPG children and their parents who have each contributed to the National DIPG Awareness Resolution in US Congress today through inspiration and advocacy for children with brain cancer. The…
Marcelo Ortigao, associate professor of Preventive Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Uniformed Services University (USU), and his wife Tanja Hess, large animal veterinarian and associate professor of equine sciences at Colorado State University Fort Collins, join us to share their family’s recent and tragic loss, and resultant advocacy…
Welcome to Part II of a special audio presentation of the DIPG Awareness Resolution Celebration and Tribute to DIPG Angels, formatted specially for Childhood Cancer Talk Radio. DIPG represents the hidden, untold story of childhood cancer, in a society informed mainly by commercials asserting that 80% of children survive cancer…
