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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

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.