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…
National Brain Tumor Society CEO Named to Cancer Moonshot Initiative’s Blue Ribbon Panel of Experts 2016-04-04 David F. Arons to represent patient advocates on the panel, which will help inform scientific direction for Vice President Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS), the largest nonprofit organization in…
After Jack died I learned that DIPG is responsible for most of the brain tumor deaths in children, so, how many have to die until their lives are worth saving? April 2, 2016 Santa Clarita, CA—The significant rise in awareness for the devastating lack of funding for research into causes…
Paul speaks in depth about his commitment to children with cancer, to speak for them and to carry the message that they are being systematically ignored by our medical research system. Paul volunteers for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which gives most of it’s income to research and is the largest contributor…
Message from NIH to subscriber transmitted by Janet Demeter (JAF) 3-28-2016 Dear Colleague, The Common Fund’s Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research (https://commonfund.nih.gov/KidsFirst) program (Kids First) is developing a data resource for the pediatric research community of well-curated clinical and genetic sequence data that will allow scientists to identify genetic…
