Brain Matters
Stories from the RCD Foundation
Professor Terry Johns + Telethon Kids Research Update
February 8, 2021
The outcomes for children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and ependymoma cancer have barely changed in 30 years. The ependymoma cure rate is less than 60% and DIPG is nearly always fatal....
2018 CERN Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship Summary Report
December 21, 2020
2018 CERN Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship Summary Report By Dr. Claire King at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Claire King, Ph.D., research associate at the Cancer Research...
About Childhood Brain Cancer
December 11, 2020
What is a brain tumour? Brain tumours include types of brain cancer, however not all brain tumours are cancerous. Brain tumours are the growth of abnormal cells in the tissues of the brain or...
About Ependymoma
October 22, 2020
Robert 'Connor' Dawes (Connor to his family and friends) was diagnosed with anaplastic ependymoma in 2011. He was 17 and had his whole, bright future ahead of him. He underwent surgery which caused...
Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day: How a five-year-old’s diagnosis brought family closer together
September 26, 2020
This story first appeared in the Herald Sun, Saturday 26, 2020 Emily Cosenza, NCA NewsWire When Rachelle and Nathan Brown first heard their 20-month-old daughter was diagnosed with ependymoma,...
Profiling Ependymoma - Connor Dawes
September 25, 2020
Saturday 26 September is Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day, this year the focus is on ependymoma. Robert ‘Connor’ Dawes was born in Wisconsin in 1994, however he spent most of his life...
Profiling Ependymoma - Georgia Brown
September 24, 2020
Saturday 26 September is Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day, this year the focus is on ependymoma. Georgia Brown is a beautiful, active five-year-old girl. She loves playing with her sisters,...
Profiling Ependymoma - Olivia Phelan
September 22, 2020
Saturday 26 September is Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day, this year the focus is on ependymoma. Olivia Phelan was 15-years-old when she was diagnosed with an ependymoma in January 2017. The...
Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day
September 22, 2020
Saturday 26 September 2020 is the second annual Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day in Australia. Every year Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day will focus on a different strain of the disease,...
Funding Partnership to uncover new brain cancer treatments for kids
April 12, 2019
The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation has joined forces with the Ethan Davies Fellowship to co-fund a Telethon Kids Institute initiative aimed at uncovering new treatments for aggressive childhood brain...