The California Senate unanimously approved Senate Resolution 106 Thursday, a measure by Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, declaring May 17 as DIPG Day. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, commonly shortened to DIPG, is a malignant brain tumor that affects the brain stem. It is almost exclusively a ...

A Santa Clarita Valley advocacy group travelled to Washington D.C. to ask for research funding to find a cure for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a rare type of brain cancer. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, often shortened to DIPG, is a malignant, diffusely infiltrating brain tumor, that ...

It’s been almost three months since baby Elisabeth Ellis ended her harrowing battle with a rare brain tumor and finally returned home from the hospital. Now the Ellis family is celebrating the inspiring little girl’s second birthday, along with the news that her first two post-chemotherapy MRIs came back tumor-free. See the full collection of KHTS Feature Stories and Videos on hometownstation.com here. ...

Before her second birthday, baby Elisabeth Ellis has endured seven long months in the hospital, six brutal rounds of chemotherapy and two brain surgeries in the fight against a rare cancerous brain tumor. See the full collection of KHTS Feature Stories and Videos on hometownstation.com here. But the inspiring little girl and her family can finally move toward putting the devastating experience behind ...

After six grueling months of fighting for her life against a rare cancerous brain tumor, the end is finally in sight for one-year-old Elisabeth Ellis and her family. See the full collection of KHTS Feature Stories and Videos on hometownstation.com here. The inspiring little girl has shown her strength time and time again as she underwent two brain surgeries and five rounds of ...

Santa Clarita’s local hospital showed off a half-million-dollar microscope Wednesday, demonstrating how the state of the art technology helps save lives. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. One of the nation’s top neurosurgeons, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital’s Dr. Mark Liker, was on hand to explain how the recently acquired Zeiss Pentero 900 ...

Monday, May 25 through Sunday, May 31 has been declared DIPG Awareness Week by the State of California. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, is a pediatric brain tumor that is invariably terminal with no progress made to that effect in over 35 years of clinical record. DIPG ...