Emma Wren of Alford UK, explains the realities of a DIPG diagnosis for her daughter Keira, and the experimental program with which Keira is involved to combat the deadly disease. Sharon Kane of “Funding Neuro”, joins us to discuss the technical details of the procedure and the origins of this…
Thursday, Feb. 4 at 4pm EST, CCTR interviews Jonathan Agin, Development Liaison and General Counsel for the Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, or CC-TDI, a non-profit biotech company dedicated to eradicating childhood cancer in all forms. Jonathan is an attorney by trade and has become one of the United States…
Give them back their childhood: Funding plea for pioneering treatment of rare brain tumour that no child has survived Most die within months of diagnosis of intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) Innovative treatment targets tumour directly rather than intravenously New technique also means there is no risk of side effects like hair…
McCaul, Van Hollen, Speier, Reed, and Capito Introduce Bipartisan Childhood Cancer STAR Act link to press release WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congressman Michael McCaul introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act of 2015. Congressman McCaul was joined by his fellow co-chair of the Childhood…
This important article is featured in Frontiers in Oncology, part of the research topic, “Advances in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma”, accessible here giving full credit to sources; the article appears here as it was written. Link to Article MINI REVIEW ARTICLE Front. Oncol., 01 July 2015 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2015.00148 Future clinical…
From Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Potential Therapy Found for Incurable Pediatric Brain Tumor Share on facebookShare on googleShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services44 by Nora Dunne on Nov 17, 2014 Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is inoperable because of the tumor’s vital location on the brainstem. Northwestern…
From the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (www.cancer.gov) Translational Research Program, DCTD Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis Organ Site-Specific SPOREs By State By Organ Location Last Updated: 11/04/14 Brain SPOREs It is estimated that in 2013 there will be 23,130 new cases of cancer of the brain…
