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Jane McGrath died two months ago from cancer. Glenn McGrath is raising their two children, Holly (6) and James (8), and they are doing the best that they can. "We talk about mummy all the time. They have chosen a star and we go say hello to mummy each night. "The kids are going well and they...

Edward "Ted" Kennedy is rumored to have only weeks left in his storied and often tragic life. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant glioma in May of this year. It is a type of cancerous brain tumor that Kennedy opted to have surgically removed in June. The surgery was believed to be a...

Jane McGrath's memorial service was attended by many mourners clad in pink, the color that symbolizes the fight against breast cancer to which McGrath recently lost her battle . In a tender and bittersweet gesture McGrath's children, James and Holly, blew bubbles outside of the church, a tribute...

Jane McGrath was the wife of Glenn McGrath, a famous cricket player in Australia. She has died after years of battling cancer. She was 42 and had two children, James and Holly. Her management company released the following statement: "With Glenn and their two children by her side, Jane's wonderful...

There’s never been a better time to have a kid with cancer. Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. What I’m trying to say is that deaths from childhood cancer are declining rapidly. The chances of surviving a number of cancers that strike young children fell 20 percent from 1990 to 2004. The big fall...

I'm all verklempt here from reading this article. Here, you do it , I can't. Okay, I'm better now. Stay-at-home dad Dave Hall has cancer and was given six months to live. He needs $10,000 to get from where he lives in the U.K. to the U.S. for treatment for his three-inch brain tumor, so his three kids...

A gaggle of German scientists have reported that children with three or more younger siblings face up to four times the risk of developing a brain tumor by age 15 compared to children with no siblings. "The association with number of younger siblings, and not with number of older siblings, suggests that...