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Research Updates MAF-funded researchers present at ISPNO 2022 The 20th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology was held June 13-15, 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. ISPNO is the major global meeting for the international community of professionals involved… June 22, 2022 · 6 min read Advocacy Give Kids a Chance Act Aims to Expand Pediatric Cancer Research and Clinical Trials The Give Kids a Chance Act is a bill that aims to encourage clinical trials that use combinations of drugs for kids with cancer. To date, testing new… June 9, 2022 · 2 min read Research Updates Creating New Treatments for Kids with Craniopharyngioma Craniopharyngioma is a type of pediatric brain tumor that typically affects kids under the age of 14 (although it also affects adults between 40-75 years). This tumor is… October 29, 2020 · 3 min read Giving Kids with Cancer Better Days Ivy was diagnosed with high-risk cancer when she was just a year old. Today she celebrates her 5th birthday! No one -- NO ONE -- ever thinks cancer could be the culprit behind the backaches of their one-year-old daughter. The possible explanations are far-ranging, but cancer is… October 19, 2020 · 1 min read Giving Kids with Cancer Better Days Levi had to leave home for cancer treatment. Today, he’s healthy and home with his family. Levi was two months into Kindergarten when he started throwing up 1 to 2 times a week. His pediatrician said Levi had the flu, but later that month,… October 13, 2020 · 2 min read Giving Kids with Cancer Better Days Morgan had a 5% chance of survival when she was 15. She turns 31 this November. Morgan had a 5% chance of survival after being diagnosed with cancer when she was a junior in high school. An experimental treatment saved her life. Morgan was… October 9, 2020 · 1 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