Life After Pediatric Brain Cancer
Nineteen years ago, when he was 2 years old, Dylan “Chase” Cruse of Elysian Fields, Texas, was diagnosed with a brain tumor the size of a small grapefruit called an ependymoma. His mother, Darlene,...
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Make Your Mental Health a Priority
Lisa O’Leary SIX MONTHS AFTER MY HUSBAND, PATRICK, died of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At the time, I thought PTSD—a...
View ArticleFor Cancer Researchers, Dogs Offer Clues to Help Kids
DOGS AREN’T CALLED man’s best friend for nothing. Our canine companions are helping researchers learn more about cancer, with the hope of providing better treatments for dogs and children. These...
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Our Own Words
IN JUNE 2016, Whitney Hayden’s life was upended when her 34-year-old husband, Adam, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. The family’s schedule, already strained by...
View ArticleTreatment for Kids’ Brain Tumors Can Cause Hearing Problems
WEEKS BEFORE HER FIFTH BIRTHDAY, Lucy Krull was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor. Over an eight-month period, she was treated with radiation and chemotherapy. Two years later, her...
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Handle With Care
LANETTE VERES OFTEN REFERS TO AN OVERSIZED DESK CALENDAR in her home office in Cave Creek, Arizona, to remind her where she needs to be, where she went, whom she needs to call and what they discussed....
View ArticleA Unified Strategy
Entrepreneurs Keith and Brooke Desserich were used to doing SWOT analyses—an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats—as a step in setting a business plan in motion. These...
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Leaving a Legacy
One is a pastor s wife in Michigan, the other a lawyer in rural Oklahoma. Both were treated for breast cancer. But what brought Sandy Smith and Kimberlee Spady together, spurring a lifelong...
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When COVID-19 Comes Home
A warm glow dances shadows across the wall just outside our bedroom door, and I hear the sounds of the classic video game Minecraft coming through our bedroom wall from the living room. What time is...
View ArticleWhat’s Next? Winter 2021/2022
MANY BRAIN CANCER PATIENTS are diagnosed in the emergency room after their condition has worsened, having previously visited their primary care doctor with nonspecific symptoms such as headaches....
View ArticleUltrasound Device Opens Blood-brain Barrier
EFFORTS TO TREAT CANCER in the brain are hampered by the blood-brain barrier, a network of closely spaced cells that protects our brains from harmful substances in the bloodstream but also blocks many...
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