Childhood Cancer Talk Radio Podcasts

Max Wallace, President and CEO of ABC2, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, talks about founder and venture capitalist Dan Case who had been afflicted with, and ultimately died of brain cancer. ABC2 has for a model Dan's genius for taking risks fearlessly and applying the venture approach to brain cancer research and treatment, the "Valley of Death" where such funding is desperately needed, coining the term "Venture Philanthropy." Max also talks about some of the most innovative and potentially cure-contributing research projects which ABC2 is currently supporting. Visit ABC2.org for more information.

Creative Solutions to problems in treating childhood cancer with the Childhood Cancer Therapy Development Institute, cc-TDI, devoted to making all forms of childhood cancer survivable. Co-Founder, advocate, and writer for kids with cancer Jonathan Agin and Scientific Director Dr. Charles Keller talk with CCTR.

CCTR interviews Gina Renay, author, mother and grandmother, and founder of Owie BowWowie and Friends Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supplying comfort to children with life-threatening illnesses in the form of an adorable stuffed-toy doggie named Owie-BowWowie. Stories of comfort and new hope for children are featured as Owie is getting ready for a new launch in the world of Childhood Cancer Awareness.

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, John McKay, and Everett Smith explain their passion for running for kids with cancer and how they help the awareness movement.

Jaime King, mother of Katie(7), and Mark Landis, dad to Parker (5), describe the realities that parents of children diagnosed with DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, face today. HRes586, the importance of advocacy and the need for change are featured, due to the neglect of these terminally ill children for decades by our medical research system in the United States. DIPG is dubbed "cancer's death-row" for kids.

CCTR interviews Dr. Kathy Warren (NCI) about her work and research into solutions for DIPG, one of the deadliest and most elusive cancers to treat. Then, with a focus on brain tumors, Michael Antonellis Director of Communications for National Brain Tumor Society explains upcoming "Head to the Hill" days for advocates descending upon Washington in early May, Brain Tumor Awareness Month.

Paul speaks in depth about his commitment to children with cancer, to speak for them and to carry the message that they are being systematically ignored by our medical research system. Paul volunteers for St. Baldrick's Foundation, which gives most of it's income to research and is the largest contributor in the private sector to pediatric cancer research, unlike the biggest cancer charities like ACS, with significant administrative salaries and giving less than 2% to pediatric research.

Gerry Tye, health care professional, advocate for kids with cancer, father...talks with us about hope, the realities of terminal childhood cancer, and the cutting edge of research: pediatric brain cancer. How parents and childhood cancer organizations are single-handedly funding the most urgently needed cancer research for our kids today.

Part I: Advocate for children with cancer Gerry Tye shares his the experience with his son Talin, diagnosed with DIPG in 2012, and for parents the importance of trusting one's instincts regarding one's own child when confronted with medical protocol for terminal illness. Gerry supports children diagnosed with cancer and their families in Australia and New Zealand.

George Dahlman, CEO of the Children's Cause for Cancer Advocacy, talks about the importance of advocacy in affecting change in legislation and the way our Administration, Congress, and Government Agencies communicate to better accommodate the needs of our children with cancer. Host Janet Demeter enjoys a rant about the "Great Cop-Out of Capitalism" for our kids with cancer, as numbers are often used as the excuse for the decades of systematic neglect. Hopeful solutions are emerging for seemingly impossible, age-old problems.