When Susan and Manny Kremer’s 4-year-old daughter, Stephanie, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1972, the news was even more devastating because there were so few answers available. Along the way they met other people in the same situation, and in 1973 they helped found the American Brain Tumor Association, the first national nonprofit dedicated to brain tumor research and education.
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