This year, our team raised over $5,000! Not bad considering my wife and I just had a baby. 

TOTAL AMOUNT RAISED: $216,144.75 

The 5th Anniversary of the Florida Brain Cancer 5K will take place on March 30, 2014 at the Center Drive Pavilion at John Prince Park in Lake Worth, FL.  Celebrate this landmark event with your community as we come together to raise important funds and awareness for brain cancer research.

 The Florida Brain Cancer 5K benefits brain cancer research 

 Click here to join! 

Thank you for honoring my father's memory by donating to find a cure.

Mood:  energetic

Please donate today and lets find a cure!

Very interesting on how ASU researchers are better able to predict the spread of Glioblastoma through the brain: 

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=198226

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2011 Research Grants

Duke University Medical Center - Dr. Hai Yan
Developing Novel Approaches to Target Glioma: Exploration of IDH1/2 mutations

University of California Los Angeles  - Dr. Linda Liau
Optimizing Dendritic Cell Vaccination for Low-Grade Glioma Patients

Scripps Research Institute Florida - Dr. Vanessa Saunders
Interplay between EGFRvIII and c-Met in Glioblastoma Multiforme

University of Florida - Dr. Jeffrey Harrison
Targeting Chemokine Receptors in Glioblastoma: Redefining the Functions of CXCR4 and CXCR7 on Glioma Stem Cells

MD Anderson Orlando - Dr. Don Eslin
Nifurtimox and radiation for medulloblastoma therapy

Florida State University - Dr. Eric Laywell
Improving Glioma Treatment with Adaptive Therapy

2010 Research Grants

City of Hope – Dr. Karen Aboody
Development of Next Generation of Neural Progenitor Cells
 
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – Dr. Patrick Paddison
Examining the multiple active pathways of GBM
 
Jackson Laboratory/Swedish Medical Center
Development of Orthotopic Xenograft GBM Pre-Clinical Mouse Models
 
Johns Hopkins -- Dr. Greg Riggins
Phase II Clinical Trial of Mebendazole
 
MD Anderson/Baylor College of Medicine -- Dr. Xiaonan Li 
Role of Nerium Oleander extract and oleandrin on glioblastoma
 
Swedish Medical Center -- Dr. Greg Foltz
Study of the Metabolism and Distribution of a Subpharmacologic Dose of Lightly-labeled 14C-Temozolomide in Newly Diagnosed GBM Patients
 
University of California San Francisco – Dr. Mike Prados
Co-Development of a novel Cdk4/6 Inhibitor to treat GBM
 
University of Florida -- Dr. Brent Reynolds
Bone Morphogenic Protein (BMP) as a novel differentiating agent in the treatment of Glioblastoma (GBM)
 
University of West Florida -- Dr. Raid Amin 
An Epidemiological Surveillance of Brain Cancer in Florida
 
University of Florida -- Dr. Erin Dunbar 
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)
 
University of Central Florida -- Dr. Sic Chan
Targeting the brain-specific mitochondrial uncoupling protein inhibits metabolic flexibility and survival of glioblastoma multiforme

Mood:  surprised

If you have a GBM, why not cut down on your Cholesterol intake? You might be feeding the GBM! Interesting article:

 http://www.labgrab.com/users/andrew-hau/blog/glioblastoma_id=1145

 They just announced that 11 of the 16 patients were still alive 32 months after the trial started, back in Nov-2006. This is the study I was trying to get my Dad into, but his karnoksky score was too low.

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110616092701.htm

Mood:  quizzical

I'd rather be safe than sorry. Also, Dr. Black is probably the most intelligent person I have ever met. so... please read:

http://www.ktvq.com/news/experts-cell-phone-cancer-risk-needs-more-study/