Lynette Apodaca and the Marc Jr Foundation, Helping Families for 14 Years

Lynette and Marc Apodaca’s son Marc Jr was diagnosed in 2007 with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). The couple quickly realized how little help there was in the form of treatment, information and support for the families facing this deadly brain tumor. They found in their journey that once…

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Brooke’s Blossoming Hope for Childhood Cancer Foundation, aka Brooke’s Blossoms

This episode features an interview with Jessica Hester, CEO of Brooke’s Blossoming Hope for Childhood Cancer Foundation, a tour-de-force organization inspired by the beautiful life of Brooke Hester. The foundation’s two-fold mission first empowers others, especially children, to make a difference for children with cancer by raising awareness through service…

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Superpowers Unite: The ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation

Childhood Cancer Talk Radio Presents Tammi Carr and Jenny Mosier Today’s show features interviews with Tammi Carr and Jenny Mosier, leaders of their respective foundations, Chadtough, in Ann Arbor Michigan and Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation in Bethesda Maryland, recently merged into the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation. Each foundation leader…

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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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Today on CCTR: Bexion Pharmaceuticals Introduces Phase II Clinical Trial for DIPG/DMG with BXQ-350

      Today on Childhood Cancer Talk Radio on TogiNet.com at 4pm EST,  Founder and CEO of Bexion Pharmaceuticals Dr. Ray Takigiku and Medical Affairs Consultant and Leader of the phase II clinical trial for DIPG/DMG at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Dr. Richard Curry.  Both scientists provide insight into the…

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Life Beyond DIPG: Inspiration and Avocation

In this edition of Childhood Cancer Talk Radio, members of the DIPG Advocacy Group Gerry Tye (Syndey, AUS), Katherine Bader (Rhineland, Missouri) and Marcelo Ortigao (Fort Collins, CO) share their personal experiences with DIPG, one of the more common types of childhood brain cancer, and the deadliest with very few…

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From Advocacy to Activism: DIPG Advocacy Group Salutes Cannonballs Across America

May 2019 has witnessed important advances in pediatric brain cancer awareness, advocacy, and the fulfillment of a life-time dream by a dedicated brother and his friends for Kayne Finley of Ormond Beach FL, deceased 18 months ago to DIPG. DIPG is the second most common but deadliest pediatric brain cancer,…

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The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation with Jeri Wilson

Jeri Wilson, Executive Director, has been with PCRF (Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation) since September of 2011 and has taken this organization from a $1.5 million dollar operating budget to a $3.5 million dollar organization. All while keeping 84% of the funding going straight to research. Since 1982, PCRF has partnered…

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Kortney Rose Foundation Pioneers Fundraising for Pediatric Brain Cancer

Kristen Gillette, Executive Director of the Kortney Rose Foundation in Oceanport, NJ, joins us to discuss the abrupt loss of her daughter Kortney in 2006 to a deadly brain tumor and the change of the landscape of childhood cancer research since then. Joining us in Segment II is Eric Montgomery,…

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Sunshine Coast Daily: The Last Hope for Dying Children

by Jane Hansen, January 21, 2018, an Australian Outlet https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/last-hope-dying-children/3315273/ IT’S the last chance hospital for dying children – a Mexican treatment centre that ­refuses to publish results or co-operate with the medical community. But, when your daughter has a fatal strain of brain cancer, you will do anything –…

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