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Lauren Hill starts #Layup4Lauren Challenge to raise awareness for DIPG
October 27, 2014
CBSSports.com
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
July 2, 2014
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…
Eat Chili and Help Cure Cancer
May 2, 2014
Cincinnati chili favorite, Gold Star Chili, has partnered with The Cure Starts Now Foundation through an innovative program called “Cans for the Cure”. Through “Cans for the Cure”, Gold Star Chili donates a portion of canned chili sales purchased through local/regional grocery stores to The Cure Starts Now to help raise much needed funds for pediatric brain cancer research. In the coming weeks Gold Star Chili plans to present The Cure Starts Now with $18,000. “Gold Star Chili believes in The…
Help CSN hit a homerun
May 2, 2014
May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month. The Cure Starts Now Foundation is looking for your support to spread the word about brain tumor awareness to increase funding for research initiatives to find the "homerun cure” for cancer. Originally started in 2007 in tribute to a local 6-year-old girl named Elena Desserich and her fight against brain cancer, The Cure Starts Now has funded over $2,000,000 in research, awareness and programs in just seven short years. With its focus on a “homerun cure” for…
The Cure Starts Now Funds Over $2.2 Million in Cancer Research
December 3, 2013
International cancer research foundation, The Cure Starts Now Foundation (CSN), along with the partnership of the DIPG Collaborative, has reached an unparalleled cycle of grant funding in 2013. In November, representatives handed out upwards of $850,000 to nine researchers around the world. To date, The Cure Starts Now has raised over $2.2 million in revolutionary cancer research since 2007. These nine grants were a result of the revolutionary DIPG Collaborative Symposium in May 2013 at…
Glendale Fesitval Raises $20k for Cancer Research
November 25, 2013
On Friday, November 22, members of The Glendale Beer, Wine and Food Festival planning committee presented The Cure Starts Now Foundation with $20,000 for being the beneficiary of the 2013 festival held back in September. This generous donation will help fund pediatric brain cancer research in search of the “homerun” cure for cancer. Pictured from left to right: Jen Gault of The Cure Starts Now Foundation, Robin Feltner of Cock and Bull Public House and Scott Stacey of Cock and Bull Public House.
First Annual Sugarloaf Race Raises Over $15k for Cancer Research
November 18, 2013
Sugarloaf, PA recently hosted the 2013 Pennsylvania Race Against the Odds in memory of Michael Balliet. The event, presented by Falvello Dental, raised over $15,500 for The Cure Starts Now Foundation, one of the first worldwide charities dedicated to finding a “homerun” cure for all forms of cancer, starting first with pediatric brain cancer. A premier 5k walk and run, the Race Against the Odds race series focuses on raising money in the pursuit of brain cancer research. The first annual…
Children Battling Cancer to Dance with Ballerinas
October 3, 2013
The Cure Starts Now, along with the Cincinnati Ballet, will be hosting a “Ballerina for a Day” event this Sunday, October 6 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, for children affected by pediatric cancer. This unique event will give children the chance to get out and have a fun-filled day at the ballet. These children are invited to bring along their families for the day. The children will see a Swan Lake preview piece, a performance by Principal Dancer, Sarah Hairston, and they will even take a ballet class…
Key Regulatory Genes Often Amplified in Aggressive Childhood Tumor of the Brainstem
September 19, 2011
Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2011) The largest study ever of a rare childhood brain tumor found morre than half the tumors carried extra copies of specific genes linked to cancer growth, according to research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators. The findings identify possible new targets for treatment of a tumor in the brainstem known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). Current survival rates for children with this cancer are low. Fewer than 10 percent of DIPG…
The Cure Starts Now Donates $100,000 to Children's Cancer Institute Australia
September 3, 2011
Press Release
After tragically losing his nine-year-old daughter, Amy, to a brain tumour, father Ren Pedersen raised $100,000 for Children’s Cancer Institute Australia (CCIA), which will go towards critical brain cancer research being carried out by Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick paediatric oncologist and CCIA scientist, Dr David Ziegler. The Cure Starts Now (CSN) is an international organisation dedicated to raising vital funds for brain cancer research. The Australian branch of CSN was created by Ren…
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