Celebrating a Win for Childhood Cancer Advocacy!

St. Baldrick’s Foundation, perhaps our greatest leader in advocacy today, brings us this amazing news about the STAR Act.Ā  Because of the support of so many individual advocates across the country, and so many supporting organizations for pediatric cancer, STAR is “getting the money” from the Senate Appropriations Committee!Ā  Thisā€¦

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Definition of Terms-a Journey in Awareness

A Journey in Awareness Everything changed after October 28, 2011 when my son Jack was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or ā€œDIPGā€, a pediatric brainstem tumor with no survivors.Ā  Though I lost my precious 3 year old boy to this practically unknown monster, I knew at the time thatā€¦

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