HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! It has been a privilege for the EndBrainCancer Initiative (EBCI) team and me to be of service to you in 2017 and I am SO excited for 2018! All of us at the EndBrainCancer Initiative (EBCI) are focused in 2018 on improving patient outcomes and encouraging and increasing IMPACT in 2018 […]
With a HUGE shout out to our sponsors and all of the participants who made this years event, nothing short of EPIC, enjoy the slideshow! ~ With Heartfelt Thanks…your EBCI Team!
With each new diagnosis of glioblastoma, comes shock, disbelief, and turmoil. Our collective awareness of this dreaded disease was heightened lastweek with the announcement that Senator John McCain will now be counted among the brave GBM warriors. While we could be tempted to feel defeat by the continued accumulation of new GBM diagnoses, EndBrainCancer is […]
For the last 15 YEARS we’ve had the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of Brain Cancer Patients and their families. As I’m writing today, I can’t help but reflect on one particular day. Not the day that my late husband, Chris Elliott, and I started our brain tumor journey but the day that Chris and […]
John Brace came into my life a mere three weeks after I had buried my husband, Chris, who died from Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) which was just six weeks after Chris and I had created the Chris Elliott Fund, now known as the End Brain Cancer Initiative. He was the first person I ever had the […]
Today, my thoughts are on Oshin Kiszko, the little boy in Australia whose brain cancer, not only ended his life but divided a nation in the process. Oshins’ parents felt that repetitively subjecting their son to the significant side effects of chemotherapy and radiation was far worse than giving him quality of life over […]
As you know, we, together with Novocure have been running a Caregiver Nomination Contest for the last few weeks in honor of November being National Caregiver Awareness Month. So, today the first day of this very important month, we’d like to announce our WINNER! Christi Estes “Cancer may take my life…the assurance is that cancer saved my […]
(Article posted in Cure Magazine on 8/17/16) Dellann Elliott Mydland wants to take the politics out of brain cancer research, and for a good reason: to produce more survivors of the disease. For nearly a decade and a half, Mydland, the founder and president of End Brain Cancer, has been working to connect patients, researchers […]
Dear Vice President Biden, Believe me, I have been thinking about you ever since I learned of your son, Beau’s, diagnosis and even more so after his death. I do not know what it is to lose a son but I do know what it is to lose a husband to brain cancer and have […]
Dellann Elliott Mydland to Speak at 2nd Annual Turning Point Conference, San Antonio, Texas We are pleased to inform you that Dellann Elliott Mydland will be a featured speaker at a national brain tumor conference entitled “At a Turning Point: Novel Therapeutic Developments in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Research.” The conference precedes the Society for […]
