Your Path to Hope Resources

Head for the Cure RRC, Courtney Benisch, tried her best to stay positive throughout her mother’s treatment and passing, and encourages how you can do the same.

I remember one fall day in 2015, my physician saying, “Your brain tumor has grown and we must intervene with treatment”.

Life with a brain tumor comes with a new definition of “normal”. After those initial life-changing words “It’s a brain tumor” or “You have cancer”, you are then faced with how to proceed.

Written by: Courtney Benisch – Regional Relationship Coordinator for Head for the Cure. Being a caregiver is a title you will have for the rest of your life, but at a point you realize it goes both ways: caring for your loved one and yourself.

Doctors and survivors from across the country share where they see the importance in choosing the best team for treatment.

Learn side effects for common brain cancer drugs, like Temodar, Avastin, Lomustine, and others.

Just outside the boundaries of a brain tumor is the tumor microenvironment, full of cells that the tumor recruits to grow and elude treatments. Scientists are looking at ways to battle back.

Written by Lisa Joerling – Head for the Cure Ambassador and Ganglioglioma Survivor Managing the symptoms of my brain tumor is part of my everyday life. Since my tumor has come back, in the last …

Written by: Courtney Benisch – Regional Relationship Coordinator for Head for the Cure From the second your loved one gets diagnosed with brain cancer your world is turned upside down. From that point on, your …

Written by: Courtney Benisch – Regional Relationship Coordinator for Head for the Cure Once you become a caregiver, your life changes instantly. Roles will reverse in the household and it will change the way you …