Gray is the color of Brain Tumor Awareness month. By wearing gray in the month of May, you show your support to all those fighting a brain cancer journey. Brainlab and Brainlab.org will celebrate Gray Day at Work on May 18. Come back to see how we support everyone battling brain cancer. The American Brain Tumor Association offers gray bracelets here >> ABTA Shop
The cancer treatment of the future will be increasingly a combination of different treatments. Brainlab is investing greatly in software because it can play a key role in analyzing patient data and building personalized treatment programs.
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Steven Keating is a doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), who collected and researched his own patient data, leading to the discovery of his own brain tumor. His story is featured in The New York Times here >> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/technology/the-healing-power-of-your-own-medical-data.html
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On March 29, the renowned news show 60 Minutes aired an in-depth feature on patients involved in a clinical trial at Duke University. The patients are being treated with a re-engineered polio virus designed to kill Glioblastoma multiforme cancer cells. If you did not get a chance to view the episode, you can watch it in its entirety here >> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/polio-cancer-treatment-duke-university-60-minutes-scott-pelley/
There was a follow-up story in Forbes about the study which can be read here >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/arleneweintraub/2015/03/30/heres-what-60-minutes-didnt-tell-you-about-the-miracle-glioblastoma-treatment/
We have lost a wonderful neurosurgeon, collaborator and friend. Andrew (Andy) Parsa, M.D., Ph.D., a world renowned neurosurgeon and Chairman of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine passed away suddenly on Monday, April 13, 2015.
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