Advocates, parents continue push for pediatric brain cancer research at CWS [Video]

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Every year at the College World Series, Omaha Baseball Village hosts Flying Flags for Charity, by which it honors the eight nonprofits it works with.

On Saturday, they honored The Cure Starts Now, which raises awareness of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, or DIPG.

“It’s a pediatric brain tumor with very little information out there in the public,” said Omaha Baseball Village marketing director Jenny Peters. “More people need to know about it. Obviously, the more awareness you generate, the more funding comes in, and then more research.”

Nick Moran, whose son Jimmy died of the disease, said it’s important to keep having that presence at the World Series every year.

“People need to know it’s out there and it comes up quick, like something as harmless as a lazy eye or a little bit of muscle weakness,” he said.

Even before Jimmy died, DIPG’s debilitating progression was visible.

“It was a helpless feeling, but at …