Now is your chance to bid on some amazing gifts and vacation packages for yourself, your family, or those you love. Go ahead and bid–and know that you are supporting a life changing mission to help end brain cancer! There are only 7 days left to make your bids online – through December 10. All proceeds […]
Health care reform was one of the most important agenda items for the 111th Congress, and on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. This landmark legislation incorporated several separate bills of particular interest to the cancer research community. The following is an update from The American […]
I consider it a privilege—in my husband’s honor—to do whatever I can to educate, bring awareness, advocate, and raise funds to help find a cure for Glioblastoma brain cancer. And what truly affects me at the heart level is when young children are taken by brain cancer. I believe we cannot stop advocating for a […]
On June 24, I was privileged to attend the King 5 TV “New Day Northwest” show taping of Dellann Elliott and actress Jean Smart. They were there in tandem, putting faces and names to what we are learning is the most deadly form of cancer: glioblastoma brain cancer. Dellann lost her husband Chris to this […]
It’s almost been ten years since I heard the word Glioblastoma, and in those ten years, I have had the pleasure of meeting only a handful of the most compassionate and endearing brain tumor specialists ( I am sure there are more and I look forward to meeting them) but for now there have been […]
A wish is simply an idea, but what makes it so different is when you take a little bit of action, a simple wish suddenly becomes something much greater, it becomes real, and is no longer a dream, wish or idea that lives in an intangible realm—it now is capable of living with us, in […]
Hello everyone. It’s been awhile since I last reached out, and I apologize. I have been very busy building brain cancer awareness and saving lives. This past weekend my team and I exhibited at the Seattle Seahawks 12K run, and passed out awareness bracelets, collateral, and talked to crowds of people about brain cancer and […]
Our new press release went live today, and we are getting coverage. Building awareness is what we do here at the Chris Elliott Fund. The release is below: Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Cancer Survivor Inspires Us All To Have Hope And Believe John Brace is one of the 3% that survived this disease – Medicine, Meditation, […]
SEATTLE – March 10, 2010 – Greg Foltz, M.D., director of the Ben and Catherine Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Treatment at Swedish Medical Center, has published a major eight-page feature article in the March/April 2010 issue of the scientific journal Scientific American MIND titled ‘New Hope for Battling Brain Cancer.’ The article, which can […]
A few months ago I learned that Dr. Oz, (I’m a big fan), featured Ovarian Cancer on his show. That’s a wonderful thing. I’m wondering when brain cancers like GBM will get that type of national attention and a national sponsor like L’Oreal. The statistics of Ovarian Cancer are about par with brain cancer. Low […]
