NEWS ABOUT THE CURE

ALTERED IMMUNE CELLS CLEAR CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR IN MICE

In mice, a fatal brainstem tumor was cleared by injecting it with engineered T cells that recognized the cancer and targeted it for destruction. The Stanford discovery is moving to human trials.

After 8-year-old dies of rare tumor, parents help raise $70,000 for brain cancer research

It was crushing when Jesse and Corrie Shumaker learned that their daughter had a rare brain tumor. And it was even more devastating when the Omaha couple’s 8-year-old daughter, Maddie, died 11 months after being diagnosed. Now the Shumakers honor Maddie and other children impacted by pediatric brain cancer through the Race Against the Odds 5K.

Friends and family remember Morgan Kottman

By the age of 15 years old Morgan Kottman touched the lives of many. That was evident by those who showed up to celebrate her birthday Sunday afternoon. "Today is ... would have been Morgan's 19th birthday so we thought it was a good day to have a party for her,” Morgan’s mother, Christine Kottman, said. Morgan passed away in 2014 from a DIPG brain tour. Family, friends, and Morgan’s classmates remembered her during the third annual Morgan Kottman Birthday Walk.

Study Identifies Factors Linked to Long-Term Survival in Pediatric/Adolescent DIPG

A number of biological factors, including age at diagnosis, symptom duration at diagnosis, and HIST1H3B mutation status, are associated with survival ≥2 years in children and young adults with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a brainstem malignancy with a median survival <1 year.