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Children with brain tumors and their families deserve to be seen and heard. The following stories feature families' and survivors' perspectives about the cancer journey from across the pediatric brain tumor community.

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From Survival to Action: Why Advocacy Matters for Pediatric Brain Tumors

From Survival to Action: Why Advocacy Matters for Pediatric Brain Tumors

Four years ago, Michael was preparing for the adventure of a lifetime. Fresh out of high school and eagerly preparing for his freshman year at Gonzaga University, his future was a blank page waiting to be written. Life, after the long pause of the pandemic, was finally beginning again. Then, one ordinary summer morning changed everything. Michael collapsed at home, sustaining a head injury, which led him to being rushed to the hospital. A CT scan revealed a brain tumor—a devastating, out-of-nowhere diagnosis of a grade 4 glioma.

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