The June issue of TIME Magazine featured a special edition on cancer research advancements and the charities that fund them. Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure was named one of "the stars of the venture-charity model" - an innovative non-profit model that is focused on results and driven by a sense of entrepreneurism.
Last week, a branch of the World Health Organization weighed in on the much debated question of a cell phone/brain cancer link. The International Agency for Research into Cancer (IARC) announced that "radio frequency electromagnetic fields" - the type transmitted by by cell phones - as a "possible" cause of cancer in humans.
Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure and the Chordoma Foundation are co-hosting the 57th meeting of the National Cancer Institute Director's Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from May 18 - 20th.
In 2010, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure partnered with the state-funded Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research on an unprecedented research matching grant program. Dollars raised at our Florida Brain Cancer 5k were matched by the state of Florida for a total of $325,000 in brain cancer research grants to three institutions: University of Florida, University of West Florida and University of Central Florida.
Gaithersburg, MD - On March 17, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration's Neurological Devices Panel endorsed the premarket approval application (PMA) for Novocure's NovoTTF-100A Treatment Kit - a novel, non-invasive device that blasts glioblastoma brain tumors with an electrical field.
