childhood brain tumors
Casino Night
The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation’s Casino Night event is held to support the advancement of medical research. Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center 603 Edmonston Dr. Rockville, MD Saturday, December 3, 2022 7pm – 11pm To Register for Individual Ticket levels or to Register as a Sponsor, please fill out the Casino Night Registration Form …
Maryland Charities Campaign
The 2021 Maryland Charity Campaign is now closed. Thank you for helping to reach our goal! Give to CBTF through the Maryland Charities Campaign. The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation’s designated number for Maryland Charities Campaign: 9165
CBTF Direct Donation
Gracious Giving Together, with your support, we will find cures! Many children suffer debilitating side effects from their brain tumors and treatments. Cures are desperately needed. The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation depends upon public donations to continue its work. Help us in supporting important research that will lead to important treatments and cures for children with brain …
Ella’s Bat Mitzvah Project: Splash & Dash
Support Ella’s Bat Mitzvah Project and The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation in supporting research to help find a cure for childhood brain tumors.
High-Grade Gliomas
Normal brain is made up of several cell types including neurons, the main functional cell of the brain, and glia, which play a supportive role to the neurons. Glia are further subdivided into different types, each type with a different function, including oligodendrocytes which cover the axons of neurons with sheathes of myelin, and astrocytes …
Impact of New Molecular Understandings on Brain Tumor Clinical Trial Design Performance
Dr. Roger J. Packer The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation was pleased to be a Silver Sponsor for the comprehensive 17th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Our Neurotransmitter Fall-Winter edition will cover other topics from the other conference. This summary covers a topic from Family Day and Educational Day, held June 11, 2016, related to molecular …
Angiogenesis Inhibitors – An “Old Frontier” in Cancer Therapy
by Tobey MacDonald, M.D., Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA In 1971, Dr. Judah Folkman, then surgeon-in-chief of Children’s Hospital Boston, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that solid tumors are dependent on “angiogenesis”, the formation of new blood vessels, for survival and growth. He proposed that …
CureSearch.org: A Valuable Resource for the Childhood Cancer Journey
Peggy Kulm, RN, MA and Deb Shade, RN , CPON This is the first of two planned articles by members of the CureSearch web team to introduce families and friends of children with brain tumors to an internet site that is designed specifically for patients, parents and families of children with cancer. The CureSearch.org team …