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The Cure Starts Now Receives Donation of Event Trailer From Coit Services!

The Cure Starts Now Foundation Receives a Donation of an Event Trailer from Coit Carpet CleaningJune 1, 2011 - The Cure Starts Now Foundation has received a donation of an event trailer from Coit Carpet Cleaning.  Complete with full signage and a multi-media presentation system, this trailer will be used for various events throughout the U.S.  "It will be particularly helpful for use in our Race Against the Odds and school outreach programs," says Executive Director Brooke Desserich.  "This allo

Rich Graeter Talks About Supporting CSN in the Chamber of Commerce's Cincy Chat

Richard Graeter of Graeter's Ice Cream talks about his company's winning model and their support of The Cure Starts Now Foundation through the creation and marketing of Elena's Blueberry Pie Ice Cream at HYPE and The Chamber of Commerce's weekly session, Cincy Chat.

Notes Left Behind Released as Paperback

“The book was always for Gracie,” Keith and Brooke Desserich remind everyone when asked. Started as a remembrance of their oldest daughter Elena to their youngest daughter Gracie, today it has become so much more. Initially self-published (Keith didn’t think anyone was interested so he only printed a few copies), “Notes Left Behind” quickly broke self-publishing records and was soon republished by HarperCollins Publishers in an audio and hardbound version in November, 2009. Quickly thereafter it

Graeter's Offers Free Ice Cream to Cure Cancer

Starting in 2008 as a wish for the “Once in a Lifetime Gala”, the Groteke family and Graeter’s Ice Cream got together to create Elena’s Blueberry Pie Ice Cream, named after Elena Desserich. Since then, the bestselling flavor has grown in its appeal and is now being sold nationwide with additional supermarkets added every day. And in tribute to her inspiration, the pints are decorated with her celebrated heart painting that also serves as the logo for The Cure Starts Now with proceeds from the fl

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

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, almo

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 a