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Morgan Adams Foundation Screening existing FDA-approved drugs leads to new treatments for pediatric cancer When a cancer patient survives five years from the end of treatment, most medical teams consider it a success. However, for some pediatric brain cancers, being disease-free at… January 31, 2020 · 3 min read artma artma 2020 Kid Art artma exists because there are kids who are battling every day to survive. For each artma, Patricia Mowry, the Creative Arts Therapist at Children's Hospital Colorado, coordinates an art project… January 30, 2020 · 9 min read Research Updates New cancer drug shows promise in treating deadly pediatric brain tumors High-grade glioma (HGG) is the leading cause of cancer death among children. HGGs are fast-growing tumors in the brain or spinal cord that arise from glial cells. Glioblastoma… January 13, 2020 · 3 min read Morgan Adams Foundation Ferrari of Denver and Local Boy Scout Team Up for 11th Annual Holiday Toy Drive One of our favorite events of the holiday season Ferrari of Denver's Annual Holiday Toy Drive! We are so grateful to have been invited to participate in FoD's… December 16, 2019 · 2 min read Morgan Adams Foundation Teenage cancer survivors advocate for childhood cancer awareness at state and national level Hannah and Gabe are teenage survivors of medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer that is found primarily in kids. Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor found… December 4, 2019 · 4 min read Morgan Adams Foundation Your support is helping speed up the search for genetic causes of pediatric brain cancer There are three traditional treatments for cancer: Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. But now a golden age of cancer research driven in part by new technologies and seed grant… November 27, 2019 · 4 min read Morgan Adams Foundation Research made it possible to find “miracle” drug to treat pediatric brain tumor with unique genetic mutation Thanks to kids' cancer research, a little boy named Eli is getting back to a more normal life as a four-year-old. It was late March of 2017 when… November 26, 2019 · 3 min read Research Updates World Cancer Research Day [Dr. Sidney Farber] was convinced that the only thing standing between science and a cure for cancer was sustained research, sufficient funding, and the national will to bring… September 24, 2019 · 1 min read