The Head to Hollywood charity, founded by US Weekly magazine editor Ken Baker, a pituitary brain tumor survivor, and actress/model Carmen Electra, whose mother died of a malignant brain tumor, provides brain tumor patients with opportunities to spend a day being pampered as a star and experiencing life as a celebrity. This might include attendance at Hollywood events and [...]
I just read about a book that sounds fascinating, reviewed in The New York Times. Janet Maslindescribes the book, called Chasing Daylight, which was written by Eugene O’Kelly, a businessman who was diagnosed lastMay with three brain tumors. He decided that he wanted to write a practical guide on how to die. One of the deliciousaspects of Maslin’s review is [...]
Recently a patient named Janet Saitta went to the emergency room with an excrusiating headache, she wasdiagnosised with brain cancer, a deadly and almost untreatable cancer, until this novel idea. A surgical procedure which involves making a small whole in the skull of a cancer patient, inserting a catheterdirectly into the tumor in the brain and injecting a compound [...]