Posts Tagged ‘ependymoma’

Chemotherapy and radiation kill rapidly dividing cells, a hallmark of cancer (and hair). However, cancer stem cells do not divide rapidly and so tend to resist these treatments. And while these stem cells make up only a small percentage of a tumor’s bulk, if only a small population survives treatment, they can often regrow a…

November 7, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of Morgan Adams, in whose honor our organization is named.  Funding for pediatric cancer research remains a critical issue. We cannot support the work to save the lives of our kiddos without YOU. On this day and EVERY DAY, we are incredibly grateful for the…

Nick Foreman, MD, the Seebaum-Tschetter Chair of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at Children’s Hospital Colorado, has been leading the way in moving groundbreaking kids’ cancer research from the lab to the clinic in Colorado for more than two decades.  Dr. Foreman’s prescient decision to collect and store tumor samples means the Morgan Adams Foundation Pediatric Brain Tumor…