| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma (PLGA) Press | |||
| Push for research, cures after Methuen girl is diagnosed with brain tumor | Jill Harmacinski | The Eagle Tribune | 06/17/08 |
| Appleton parents share daughter’s battle with brain cancer (pdf) | M.P. King | Appleton Post Cresent | 1/11/08 |
| Special Gift for Girl Comes From Unlikely Place (pdf) | Cheryl Sherry | Appleton Post Cresent | 12/25/07 |
| Shopping to Fight Childhood Cancer (video) |
WFRV TV | 10/24/07 | |
| Two Year Old Appleton, WI girl wages battle for her life (pdf) | Cheryl Sherry | Appleton Post Cresent | 10/ 21/07 |
| Funding for sick kids (video) Elizabeth Cohen finds some parents who turn to do-it-yourself funding to treat their children’s rare disease. |
Elizabeth Cohen | CNN | 9/4/07 |
| Ensuring Money You’ve Raised Goes to Help Your Sick Child Amy Marcus, focuses on the struggles of one family who faced and are conquering the challenges of ensuring that their fundraising efforts were going to be used for targeted research that would shed light on the disease that afflicted their child, JPA. |
Amy Dockser Marcus | Wall Street Journal | 1/30/07 |
| BU fights JPA tumor with 5K run on campus, a nationwide group that raises money for research on juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (JPA), a type of brain tumor in children. | Jenna Nierstedt | Daily Free Press | 10/2/06 |
| Riding To Fight Brain Tumors The parents of a 4-year-old boy who has a rare brain tumor have organized a cycling benefit Sunday to raise money to combat the disease. |
Richard C. Lewis | Boston Globe | 5/18/06 |
| Putting Mettle to Pedals to Save a Boy’s Life An article telling the story of TJ and the Brain Tumor Society’s Ride for Research. |
Carolyn Thorton | Providence Journal | 05/11/06 |
| Children’s Brain Tumor Press | |||
| Children with Brain Tumors Don’t March An article about the pain everyone feels following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, even doctors. |
Michael Arnold Glueck & Robert J. Cihak | Newsmax.com | 05/02/05 |
| A Cry in the Dark When a rare cancer strikes, a patient has few places to turn. |
Amy Dockser Marcus | Wall Street Journal | 03/20/06 |
| Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors and Late Effects What happens after treatment? The aftermath of current treatments for pediatric brain tumors. |
Maggie Fox | Reuters | 08/22/05 |
| Emily’s Story Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 A series of articles “chronicling how a young woman disabled by brain tumors came to terms with her first year at Harvard, and how Harvard came to terms with her.” |
Thomas Farragher | Boston Globe | 06/19/05 |
| Parents Face Painful Choice In Treating Childhood Cancer New Brain-Tumor Protocol Highlights Growing Tradeoff Between Survival, Side Effects |
Amy Dockser Marcus | Wall Street Journal | 03/01/05 |
| They’re Making the Best of It Mother organized “Pediatric Brain Tumor Awareness Day” to raise money and awareness for pediatric brain tumor research. | M. English | The Colonial News | 10/13/06 |
| Other Press | |||
| Cancer Scientists Lament Funding According to the recent Wall Street Journal article below, our children’s futures are in OUR hands. With overall cancer research dollars flat over the last few years, there is no indication that this will change going forward. If we want to find new, less invasive, less toxic treatments and a cure for our children….we will have to raise the money ourselves. | Marilyn Chase | The Wall Street Journal | 05/31/08 |
| Pitt gets money to fight brain tumors | The Tribune Review | 04/24/08 | |
| National Institutes of Health, Office of Rare Diseases, How to handle Orphan Diseases The Director of NIH, ORD talks with a WSJ reporter about the challenges of testing drugs and treatments for orphan diseases, illnesses that affect only a tiny proportion of people. |
Amy Dockser Marcus | Wall Street Journal | 1/29/07 |
| Expansive Effort Is Begun to Study Rare Diseases The National Institutes of Health has started the first of what will eventually be about 50 clinical studies looking into a variety of rare diseases and disorders. |
Jennifer Corbett Dooren | Wall Street Journal | 5/16/06 |
| Next Chapter: After Leukemia, Family Struggles To Define ‘Normal’ Jack Streeter, 8, Joins Ranks Of Cancer Survivors Coping After Treatment — The Challenge of Kickball |
Amy Dockser Marcus | Wall Street Journal | 06/09/04 |
| Bloodless Revolution Imagine an operating room requiring no sterilization because there are no wounds, where doctors don’t wear scrubs because there is no blood, where anesthesia is unnecessary because there is no pain… |
Harbour Fraser Hodder | Harvard Magazine | 11/00 |
