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Ontario family raising awareness about rare brain tumour in response to child’s terminal diagnosis

Unlike many other pediatric cancers, there has been almost no progress in treatments and cure rates for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) due to lack of awareness and research funding.

October 21, 2020 9:16 a.m. EST

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