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UF Health Brain Tumor Education Day is open to all who are impacted by a brain tumor disease throughout the State of Florida and southeastern US. Held on the University of Florida campus, our educational day is an excellent opportunity for guests to ask questions about all brain tumor treatments…

Just four months after Orlando Sentinel editor Beth Kassab’s husband, Grady, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, she received a brain tumor diagnosis of her own.

A day for patients and their families to gain knowledge about treatment options and learn about resources available at UF Health. Register and Learn More at: https://braintumorday.neurosurgery.ufl.edu/…

Diseases of the brain steal: Some steal balance, others memory; some take away the ability to walk, even speak. Some result in a decline that’s long and gradual, or heartbreakingly fast. Each condition is devastating in its own way for those afflicted and for all the people who love them.

November 27, 2017 –  The Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy team had an impressive showing at the 2017 Society for Neuro-Oncology, or SNO, meeting in San Francisco, California, held Nov. 16-19. Assistant professor Loic Deleyrolle, Ph.D., and post doctoral fellow Lan Hoang-Minh, Ph.D., received a Top…

Out of the 20,000 genes a person has, Cristina Matos lucked out with a genetic mutation that would save her life. In August 2014, Cristina Matos was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, a fatal brain cancer that spread to her spine. She was in horrible pain, bed-ridden.

July 20, 2017  – What do we know about the type of brain cancer with which Senator John McCain has been diagnosed? UF Health Neurosurgeon Maryam Rahman, M.D., is a member of the research team led by Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., to develop safe and more targeted treatments using immunotherapy for patients with malignant brain…