Partial sponsorship-funding of a professional meeting for ATRT The Childhood Brain Tumor was a partial sponsor for this important meeting that was held March 9-10, 2009 at the Fairmont Copley Hotel in Boston. Susan Chi, M.D., Mark Kieran, M.D., Ph.D. and Charles Roberts, Ph.D. from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute organized the meeting. Experts in the field …
Dr. Jack Su, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine When I first chose pediatric oncology for my fellowship, invariably I was asked the question “Why would you want to take care of children with cancer?” Now that my career has evolved to working with children with brain tumors, I am still …
Ichiro Nakano, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Instructor / Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 2008 Despite the dramatic improvements in the outcome of other childhood cancers in the last decades, brain tumors remain the leading cause of death in the pediatric oncology. Malignant brain tumors are composed …
Written by Jeanne Young, President, CBTF-MD Excerpts taken from notes and the Neuro-Oncology, Vol. 11, Issue 3, June 2008 Reviewed by Debbie Lafond, Children’s National Medical Center, RN, RNCS, PNP, CPON The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation was proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the 13th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO), held at the …
Michael Cooper Funded 2008 Pilocytic astrocytoma is commonly viewed as a benign lesion with an excellent 10-year survival rate. However, disease onset is most prevalent in the first two decades of life, current therapeutic modalities are often limited by tumor location and size and late recurrences are not uncommon. Thus, as many children are left …
12th Annual International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation was pleased to be amongst the supporters for the 12th ISPNO, held June 6-9, at the Nara-Ken New Public Hall in Nara, Japan (the oldest capital area in Japan). Dr. Masao Matsutani, the President of the 2006 ISPNO and Dr. Roger Packer, …
Introduction: written by Jeanne Young, President, The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation-Maryland, Workshop Administrator On Monday, May 22, 2006 the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF), Germantown, MD, and the Children’s National Medical Center’s (CNMC) Department of Neurology, Washington, DC, Co-Sponsored the Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma Workshop: “Towards Biologic Based Therapies”. This full day, Professional Workshop was conducted …
The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation is proud to announce year 2001 funding of a promising research study entitled, “Gene Expression Analysis of Medulloblastoma” submitted by Dr. Tobey MacDonald of Children’s National Medical Center. The initial results of this study have been published in the October issues of the leading scientific journals, Nature Genetics. In addition, …
