Family faces two brain tumor diagnoses in four months
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.
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Register Now for Brain Tumor Education Day 2019
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/…
The Brain’s A-Team: UF’s Heavy Hitters of Neuroscience
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.
UF Health brain tumor team honored at annual meeting
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…
Our Stories: Cristina Matos
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.
Sen. John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer
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…
Phase II brain cancer trial now open for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma
May 26, 2017 By Marilee Griffin – A new phase II clinical trial currently enrolling patients with glioblastoma is now open at the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy at UF. The study builds on prior UF…
Battling brain cancer
Fall 2016 By Michelle Koidin Jaffee – Elias Sayour spent years working toward becoming a pediatric oncologist so he could help kids fight cancer. He always imagined taking care of patients; he didn’t think research was really his thing. But as a fellow in…
UF Health Cancer Network earns national accreditation for quality care
January 30, 2017 By Marilee Griffin – The UF Health Cancer Network, comprising UF Health and the UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health, has received a three-year accreditation with commendation by the Commission on Cancer, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons.
