Paul Daugherty: Hero is an overused term, but not in the case of Lauren Hill

 Paul Daugherty original article: Cincinnati Enquirer View Comments “Hero’’ is an overripe word in sports. Loose use has trampled its meaning, its precision, its special-ness. “The hero of the game’’ is an oxymoron. Lauren Hill was not a basketball-playing hero. She was a hero who happened to play basketball. The difference…

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Now Is The Time: “Moonshot4Kids” Congressional and White House OSTP Briefing Asserts Urgency for Childhood Brain Cancer

May 17 panel assembles to alert the Federal Government of the suffering and deaths of children with brain cancer, a leading killer of children in the USA downloadable pdf version “Now is the time for a Moonshot for Children.” –Michelle LeBeau, CSO Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas WASHINGTON, DC,…

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State and National Parent Advocacy for Childhood Brain Cancer

Parent advocacy for childhood brain cancer at the state level in South Carolina with Randy Hinton begins today’s show, as he shares his relationship with the South Carolina Department of Environmental and Health Control, and the SC Cancer Registry which operates under that department. Randy’s advocacy supported the 2021 South…

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If No One Knows, No One Cares: #Moonshot4Kids Delivers Urgent Message to President Biden at the White House

“…This is the reality for childhood cancer; we all assume–even the President!–that if we invest in something it will of course trickle down to our children. This is the wake up call of #Moonshot4Kids: medical research investment into cures for children is one area where our priorities as Americans are completely upside-down. You don’t know it until it directly affects you. We spend more dollars on potato chips annually than our government invests into childhood cancer…”

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The Fairness to Kids with Cancer Act: A Conversation with the Inspiration, Mina Carroll

Childhood Cancer Talk Radio presents a conversation with Mina Carroll, foundation leader and childhood cancer advocate. Mina Carroll with the Storm the Heavens Fund in Philadelphia, PA, literally coined the “We Must Do Better” -for children with cancer- phrase to confront the terrible reality in our society today that children…

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Childhood Brain Cancer: PNOC Foundation Informational Webinars

PNOC Foundation Administrators Allyn Campbell and Rachael Cassells join us to discuss the May 1 DIPG/DMG webinar and how people can register at www.PNOCF.events, and other upcoming webinars for the special month of May.  For Brain Tumor Awareness Month, we share childhood brain cancer statistics and facts, and why awareness…

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Expanded Access Program Press Release from Oncoceutics

Oncoceutics Receives Foundation Grants to Establish an Expanded Access Program for ONC201 Philadelphia, PA (November 2, 2020) – Oncoceutics, a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company, announced today that it has received grants from Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation, Dragon Master Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation to fund an Expanded…

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Chase Jones and the Biden Cancer Initiative

Chase Jones is a survivor of childhood brain cancer, founder of Vs. Cancer Foundation, and is organizing community leadership around the country for the September 21 Biden Cancer Summit. He discusses his own experience with brain cancer at 18 and its personal ramifications, including survivor guilt and how he overcame…

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CCTR Presents Kathy Riley and We Can Pediatric Brain Tumor Network

Kathy Riley talks to CCTR about We Can Pediatric Brain Tumor Network, which began 20 years ago with the support and camaraderie between mothers of pediatric brain tumor patients.  The support and healing which came from their sharing was so helpful that they wanted to share it with others.  The…

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