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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
