Kentucky has the highest cancer incidence and mortality rate in the nation, and new data shows the state ranks sixth ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Governor Andy Beshear signed a proclamation on Tuesday raising awareness for DIPG — diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma — a rare, aggressive brain cancer. This happened as state ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A form of brain cancer called DIPG has killed every child and young adult who has ever been diagnosed. But one young man, publicly ...

State health officials are investigating an unusual pattern of rare pediatric brain cancer diagnoses in southeastern Kentucky ...

Nine-year-old John Paul Macri has always been fascinated by soldiers and their courage. Now, he's living a battle of his own.

It's called DIPG, and chances are, it's one of the worst cancers you've never heard of. And it's one that hits children. That's why DIPG Awareness Day — May 17 — has been created. It's also why a ...

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is one of the most devastating pediatric brain tumors. It sits in the brainstem where it cannot be surgically removed, responds poorly to chemotherapy, and ...

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Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have revealed new insight into how the most deadly pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine ...