To President Barack Obama: Thursday May 5, 2016 I had the pleasure of meeting with Fae Jencks in the Office of Science and Technology this last Tuesday regarding an Awareness Resolution currently in the House of Representatives, HRes586, designating the 4th week of May to be National DIPG Awareness Week. …
Childhood Cancer Advocacy 101 What if it were your child? God help you…you’d discover very quickly that the medical research system doesn’t consider your child’s life investment-worthy, that no therapies have been developed for this disease for decades, and that urgency of need and potential years of life lost are…
(Taken from cc-TDI.org) Dr. Keller’s research focuses on the development of more effective, less toxic therapies for childhood cancers. His special interest is advanced disease that has spread beyond the initial location of the cancer. Charles co-chairs the brain tumor developmental therapeutics committee (CNS-DVL) of the Children’s Oncology Group and is…
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,…
