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From the February 12, 2025, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

CALLER: Oh, I just wanted to call and advocate for my daughter here. So my daughter was diagnosed with DIPG. It is a brain tumor of the brain stem, and with the —  time is of the essence here, and the prognosis we got was go home and make memories. There has been no advances in this type of cancer. And it kind of ties all in here with some government funding, knowing that pediatric brain cancer is the lowest-funded type of cancer out there. So I just wanted to call and advocate for her and spread some awareness with you.

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Well, first of all, I'm very sorry. How old is your daughter?

CALLER: She was 7 at diagnosis, 10/1, so she's now turned 8.

HANNITY: OK. First of all, I don't — I can't imagine the heartache and pain and suffering that you and I assume your wife or your girlfriend, whoever, are going through, and our prayers are with you, number 1. And our prayers are with her, number 2. I can only say that, you know, just keep working and trying, call the top cancer centers in the country. I assume you probably already have. 

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CALLER: No one has ever been cured of what she has. And with the lack of funding, basically, all you get is parents like me who have had a kid with this, starting organizations and coming up with money to carry on the research for them. So that's why I wanted to call and, you know, advocate for research and people just, you know, the more you know with kids.

HANNITY: Nobody's against scientific research. Most of the solutions for cancer are going to be found in the private sector, not with public money.

CALLER: Yeah. I mean, unless you got a big corporation with a big problem. You know, big problems there, like, get solved fast. But with such a small number of kids getting this, yeah, it's definitely something that doesn't get looked at as much.

SEAN: So they've given you basically — you're telling me they've given you no hope at all? None?

CALLER: No. They said your route is get radiation, go home, and make memories. 

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We've found clinical trials and, you know, no new clinical trials in the last 10 years, but there's some out there, but it's — every one of them is lacking funding. Some of them have had awesome preclinicals, and so that's why I'm calling today is to try and get your listeners — 

SEAN: Well, I would find out who is in charge of those programs. And if you have to, get on an airplane and go out and try and get your daughter in that program. I mean, if that's the only one that will show hope that's out there, my suggestion — because there's nothing else that can be done fast enough right now.

There's no amount of — even if the government spent, you know, $300 million on this particular cancer tomorrow, it's not going to be your answer. It's going to be the people that are in the field. And don't forget Donald Trump did give us the right to try. In other words if you really believe in the treatment. Is there anything else we could do for you?

CALLER: Well, I'll be talking with them on the Kansas House floor Friday. The right to try is starting to get passed there. Still need medicines that make it through FDA for them to be able to be tried. But the organization … Tough2Gether, they work specifically with this type of brain cancer. It's very rare and we just need to get the people to understand what it is. And no kid should get this diagnosis.