Three New Mexico women are set to travel to Washington, D.C. to advocate for brain cancer research funding. This comes as May marks the first day of Brain Cancer Awareness Month. Teresa Chavez lost her daughter to glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. She donated her daughter's brain to science after learning about post-mortem brain donation. Dr. Sara Piccirillo, who runs New Mexico's only patient-testing program, still keeps Chavez's original message about the donation on her lab wall. The three women are participating in the national “Head to the Hill” event, where representatives from almost all 50 states will lobby for three bills related to brain cancerResearch.