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A victory for our kids: STAR passes Senate!

From the Children’s Cause for Cancer Advocacy We’re so thrilled to share with you this good news from Capitol Hill: Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever introduced! We thank our champions in the Senate for leading the way toward this huge milestone…

Fly like a Superhero with Smile High Club

Jim Churchman joins us to share the story of the Smile High Club, a non-profit organization dedicated to putting smiles on faces and hope in the hearts of children facing illness or any physical challenge. A stuntman for many years, Jim Churchman is a 2nd Unit Director and Stunt Coordinator…

Working Toward Greater Precision in Childhood Cancers

Working Toward Greater Precision in Childhood Cancers Francis Collins, March 6, 2018 posted on NIH website, direct link above Each year, more than 15,000 American children and teenagers will be diagnosed with cancer. While great progress has been made in treating many types of childhood cancer, it remains the leading cause…

Global Childhood Cancer Advocate Gerry Tye in Sydney, Australia

Gerry Tye joins us from Sydney Australia to discuss the changes in the childhood cancer community over the past six years. A father of three boys, Gerry’s middle child Talin (age 5) was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012, passing away shortly thereafter. Beginning in relative obscurity, Gerry’s advocacy for…

NEW Information Regarding the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) PAR-16-348

February 1, 2018, The NIH Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program Team Dear Colleagues- The Kids First Program would like to inform you that the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) PAR-16-348, “Small Research Grants for Analyses of Data for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource (R03)” recently expired, and the…

Sunshine Coast Daily: The Last Hope for Dying Children

by Jane Hansen, January 21, 2018, an Australian Outlet https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/last-hope-dying-children/3315273/ IT’S the last chance hospital for dying children – a Mexican treatment centre that refuses to publish results or co-operate with the medical community. But, when your daughter has a fatal strain of brain cancer, you will do anything –…

Congressman Knight Champions Awareness Legislation for Children with Cancer

January 30, 2018, Santa Clarita, CA–One year ago today, Congressman Steve Knight (R-CA-25) introduced with Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA-14) H.Res.69, the National DIPG Awareness Resolution to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Resolution persists today, amid an intensive political landscape in 2018, for children with the deadliest pediatric brain…

FACTOR 2018: MIB Agents Osteosarcoma Mission Full Speed Ahead

Ann Graham, CEO of MIB Agents–Make-It-Better-Agents–and osteosarcoma survivor, joins us to discuss the great strides in improving outcomes for osteosarcoma patients which her organization accomplishes as they move forward. The FACTOR Conference began last year in 2017 and was enormously successful in bringing top oncologists, clinicians, patient families and advocates…

Shane and Shawnee Doherty: The Story behind “Hope through Hollis”

Shane and Shawnee Doherty discuss frankly their experience with their son Hollis who was diagnosed with DIPG in March of 2016. DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, is for all practical considerations a death sentence. The Doherty family showed an extraordinary solidarity out of the gate to endure the experience in…

Portrait of a Mom: Quality of Life and Neuroblastoma, with Sarah Brewer

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Sarah Brewer knows the fear; through years of experience with her son Ben, diagnosed with Neuroblastoma at 2 years of age, her daughter Madeline just born, hers is a story of the most pervasive power of all: love. Her family changed forever, but love and caring remain intact and reign supreme.

Hearing Sarah’s story of commitment and faith in the face of perilous uncertainty, for so long, is a testament to the preciousness of her son Ben in his brave fight, and to the importance of embracing the best in each moment–and insisting on it.
Sarahs blog documenting Ben’s awesome survival is at www.strongerthanilook.com, a must-read for parents of children with cancer.

The podcast can be found online at: http://bit.ly/CCTR12-14-17. (our podcast links are always case-sensitive)

You can listen to live TogiNet radio at www.TogiNet.com. Childhood Cancer Talk Radio airs every Thursday at 4pm Eastern time, 1pm Pacific.

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