Promising Therapeutic Target found for Medulloblastoma In 2013 Michael Gustafson passed away, 5 years after his medulloblastoma diagnosis. Michael decided to donate his tissue to research in the hopes that other children would not experience the suffering of brain...
Groundbreaking Advancements at the Children’s Brain Tumor Network Gift from a Child (GFAC) and the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN) work together to help create a world where no family is faced with the devastating reality of an incurable brain tumor. CBTN...
International Childhood Cancer Day Caring for a child with cancer is mentally, physically and spiritually draining on the caregivers. To honor International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) on February 15th the World Health Organization Global Initiative for Childhood...
The Impact of Gift From a Child through Children’s National Hospital GFAC Regional Center of Excellence, Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. directly shared donated post-mortem tissue with twelve institutions in 2022 . The Children’s National GFAC...
A Few Stories About Families Who Made a Difference Families who endure losing a child to brain cancer is a club no one wants to be in. It’s a club where members navigate hourly around the emptiness left by the child who passed too soon, while knowing that less than 8%...
10 Years Later…a sad and beautiful world My wise husband often reminds me, “It’s a sad and beautiful world.” This story is like that. It’s beautiful and sad. You see, 10 years ago today, our son Michael donated his brain and spine to research when he died from...
