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 home, surrounded by those who loved her. DIPG is responsible for 80% of pediatric brain tumor deaths and has had no survivors in over 50 years of record. Katie’s case was extraordinary and extremely valuable to public awareness in that her mother, Jaime King, was insistent upon sharing the details of their journey with DIPG on Facebook publicly.
With the hope of further amplifying their message, Jack’s Angels Runner will be carrying signs today in protest of the current medical research system in its neglect of those most needing of solutions, children with brain tumors, for some 50 years. Neil Armstrong’s daughter died of DIPG in 1062; treatment has changed little, and prognosis remains invariably terminal. With uncanny regularity, parents are expected to accept that their children’s lives are too few to matter to our medical research system, which is completely profit-driven.
The runner also wears a hat sign asking people to visit HRes586.com, a page on Jack’s Angels Foundation’s website which gives directions for supporting the new awareness bill, HRes586. HRes586 was introduced by Steve Knight (R-CA-25) to the House of Representatives 1/13/2016; it asks for more consideration for the deadliest cancers and for children with the National Cancer Institute research grant process. The run also begs the question, “who will stand up for these children?”, and “Where have all the activists gone?”
For more information about Katie’s journey, visit her Facebook page at:www.facebook.com/KatherineTheBrave/ For more information about HRes586, a local triumph for childhood cancer awareness needing your support, visit: 
http://hres586.com.
All interested in having a voice in Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative are invited to attend the Cancer Moonshot Regional Summit for Los Angeles on June 29, 2016 from 9am-1pm at The Masters College, 21726 Placerita Canyon Rd, Santa Clarita, CA 91321. For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/events/538412273035079/, or call Jack’s Angels Foundation at 661-977-3125.
Staff, Jack’s Angels Foundation, 32520 Wagon Wheel Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91390; 661-977-3125, 818-400-2724 mobile; @JacksAngels1 / [email protected]
