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The Cure Starts Now awards $100,000 research grant to Dana Farber

The Cure Starts Now Foundation, along with the DIPG Collaborative, awarded another pediatric brain cancer research grant to Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. The Massachusetts Chapter of The Cure Starts Now Foundation surprised Dr. Beroukhim with the grant for $100,000 for his "characterizing resistance mechanisms to radiation therapy in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma" study. To date, The Cure Starts Now Foundation has raised over $6.7 million in groundbreaking pediatric brain cancer…

West Sixth Brewing and Stagnaro Distributing to make donation to cancer research

West Sixth Brewing and Stagnaro Distributing are set to make a donation of $3,392 to The Cure Starts Now Foundation on August 13 through the West Sixth “Pay It Forward” program.  By purchasing The Pay it Forward Cocoa Porter, West Sixth donates 50 cents for every 6-pack sold to a nominated charity of choice. The Cure Starts Now was the charity of choice during the second quarter of 2015 for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region, where 3,392 6-packs were sold equating in a donation of $1,696.  …

Lauren Hill, inspirational college basketball player, dies after battle with brain cancer

Lauren Hill, the college basketball player who became an inspiration with her bravery in the face of an inoperable brain tumor, died at 19 years old on Friday morning...

The Inspirational Story of Lauren Hill

There’s no one more deserving of being our first 'View-er of The Week' than Lauren Hill. When Hill was told she had months to live, she put on a brave front. The 19-year-old from Lawrenceburg, Indiana had been diagnosed with an inoperable from of brain cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). After her diagnosis, Hill fulfilled her dream of playing college basketball for Mount St. Joseph’s University; she was later named an honorary coach of the team and has raised over $1 million…

Mom of college athlete with terminal brain cancer updates on daughter’s status

The mother of Lauren Hill, the Mount St. Joseph basketball player whose fight with terminal brain cancer has put her in the spotlight, updated the Lauren’s Fight for a Cure Facebook page on her daughter’s status. On Sunday, Lisa Hill said that Lauren sleeps about 12 hours a day now and her appetite is decreasing. The 19-year-old has had increasing issues with swallowing, and her caregivers must cut her food into bite-size pieces to prevent choking. According to the Facebook update, Lauren’s pa…

Teen basketball player with brain tumor raises $1.4 million for cancer

Lauren Hill, the Indiana college freshman who played basketball last season while battling an inoperable brain tumor, continues to inspire people worldwide with her determination and courage. Over the past several months, Hill has helped raise an astounding $1.4 million to help fund research to fight cancers like hers.

Lauren Hill: 'I want everybody to know I never give up'

The day we visited was a good day, the kind that occur less and less for Lauren Hill. She had only the pain in her joints. No dizziness, no migraines, no need for a wheelchair. She laughed and smiled and paid special attention to Sophie, the toy poodle she got shortly after her diagnosis some 14 months ago. She spoke easily of the tragic miracle her life has become. "My body is shutting down, and there's nothing I can do,'' she said. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Such an intricate name, al…

Hill fulfills dream, nets 4 points

CINCINNATI -- The first basket of the 2014-15 college basketball season went, fittingly, to Lauren Hill of Division III Mount St. Joseph. Hill, a freshman with inoperable brain cancer, took a pass in the post and hit a left-handed layup just 17 seconds into Sunday's game against Hiram College. The NCAA allowed the schools to move the game up two weeks in the hope Hill would be healthy enough to play. In September, doctors told her she has only a few months to live...

Lauren Hill starts #Layup4Lauren Challenge to raise awareness for DIPG

Lauren Hill is the Division III women's basketball player for Mount St. Joseph's in Ohio that has an incurable type of brain cancer called DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). Her first and only college basketball game will be played at Xavier University on November 2, and tickets for the game sold out in approximately one hour. But Hill wants to have a longer lasting effect than just playing in a single college basketball game. She wants to raise awareness so that eventually there will be…

Penny Wars Benefit The Cure Starts Now

During the end of the 2014 school year, students at Fred Becker Elementary School in Waterloo, IA wanted to do something to help kids with cancer. A group of third graders brainstormed a great way to get the rest of the school involved. After much discussion the "Penny War" began.The students challenged each hallway to come up with pennies to benefit The Cure Starts Now Foundation. The hallway with the most pennies enjoyed ice cream as a treat. The group of 5 third graders planned the whole fund…