Calgary boy who died from rare brain cancer may provide gift of life for other children

For parents of a two-year-old boy who died of a rare brain cancer, the heart wrenching decision to donate his tumour has turned into a potentially lifesaving gift. On Oct. 23, 2010, Alexander Brown died from a childhood brain cancer called ETANTR, or Embryonal Tumour with Abundant Neuropil and True Rosettes. His parents, Tara and Jonathan Brown, made the difficult decision to donate his brain and tumour to the University of Calgary. And now, even in his death, their son is contributing to helping other kids fight the disease after the first ever cell line for ETANTR has been derived from his tumour, a key for researchers to help find a cure. Read the news article here.