Creating Hope Act of 2011
July 3, 2012
This is the saddest story you will ever read about how a bill becomes law. It should also make you feel better about our dysfunctional political system.
The story begins on a Sunday in February 2007, when a doctor suggested that Jacob Froman, then 8, had brain cancer. An MRI on Monday confirmed the grim diagnosis: metastatic medulloblastoma.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
October 3, 2011
This was supposed to be the year for Jacob Froman's bar mitzvah, except that a rare and fatal brain cancer reached out for him first.
Just 10, Jacob died in 2009, two years after a diagnosis of medulloblastoma, a rare brain cancer with no drug designed specifically to treat it.
During the arduous months of ultimately unsuccessful treatments, his mother, Nancy Goodman, discovered that few pharmac
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 29, 2011
Last week, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), along with Reps. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Sue Myrick (R-NC), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), introduced H.R. 3059, the Creating Hope Act of 2011. The bill is a companion bill to S. 606, which was introduced in the Senate earlier this year by Senator Robert Casey (D-PA), along with co-sponsors Sens.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 28, 2011
Imagine your child fighting for his life, taking massive doses of highly toxic radiation, chemotherapy to kill the cancer in his body before it kills him.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 28, 2011
At age five, some kids have won pee-wee sports championships or perhaps a class spelling bee, but for Luke Fochtman of Okemos, Mich., his fifth birthday marked his victory over a much larger foe -- in a life-or-death battle with childhood cancer, Luke has come out on top.
"Through 72 weeks of treatment, chemotherapy, 105 fevers, he never said 'no' to us," says Luke's mom Monica Fochtman, 36.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 27, 2011
WASHINGTON - 8-year-old Ryan Darby marched right up on a stage in the Capitol Visitor's Center, stood on a ladder and talked about his dream.
"Maybe one day, every kid that gets diagnosed with leukemia will beat it, like me."
Ryan has beaten leukemia, but one in five kids with cancer do not survive.
"There are 13,500 children that are diagnosed with cancer each year.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 23, 2011
Imagine your child fighting for his life, taking massive doses of highly toxic radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer in his body before it kills him.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 22, 2011
Imagine your child fighting for his life, taking massive doses of highly toxic radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer in his body before it kills him.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 22, 2011
MYFOXNY.COM - David and Max Plotkin are looking for a cure... for pediatric cancer, that is.
Max was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer when he was four years old.
Today, Max has been cancer-free for more than two years. David -- who left a lucrative career in finance to focus on his son's recovery-- has created the Max Cure Foundation.
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Creating Hope Act of 2011
September 20, 2011
The House Childhood Cancer Caucus hosted its Second Annual Childhood Cancer Summit on September 23, 2011 on Capitol Hill. The Summit featured a panel discussion entitled "The Future of Childhood Cancer Drug Development."