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Ivy Brain Tumor Center and SonALAsense Announce Positive Initial Results
The Ivy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute and SonALAsense announced positive results in their first-in-human Phase 0/1 clinical trial of SDT in recurrent glioblastoma patients. The
Limitations of the Standard of Care for Patients with Brain Tumors
“Since I started my training, there was the establishment of what’s currently the standard of care. Which is the concurrent use of radiation and temozolomide
Key discovery in understanding the spread of medulloblastoma, a deadly pediatric brain cancer
Medulloblastoma is a deadly form of pediatric brain cancer that strikes the cerebellum, a brain structure near the base of the skull. When it spreads
In Your Own Words
Patients
I feared I wasn’t strong enough.
Written by Elysa Merlin As I write this, it marks the week, three years ago, that so drastically changed my life. I was 32 years old when I was told that the headaches I had been suffering from for several months were actually being caused by a lesion on my brain
Caregivers
Difficult Conversations Prior to Treatment
Written by: Heather Vasek | Brains for the Cure Ambassador After a diagnosis of brain cancer, it is likely that surgery or some other treatment
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