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NEWS June 2023
Experimental vaccine shows promise in delaying the return of aggressive brain tumor.
The vaccine, called SurVaxM, was shown to nearly double the survival time in a trial of 63 patients. Researchers now hope to confirm the findings in a larger trial.
John Wishman was diagnosed with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, in fall 2020.
Two and a half years later, he’s still traveling and enjoying life — a rarity for a cancer with an average survival time of just 12 to 18 months.
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Op-ed by Board Member Sundas Hashmi
There’s a ticking time bomb in my head. I’m learning to live with it.
Like most people in treatment for brain tumors in the United States, I’ve had to adapt to a mind that feels very different from the one I once knew.
“The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss” — memoir by OurBrainBank board member Nicola Nuttall
Nicola Nuttall writes movingly about her daughter Laura who lived an incredible vivid life even after being diagnosed with glioblastoma.
LATEST NEWS.
Op-ed by Board Member Sundas Hashmi
There’s a ticking time bomb in my head. I’m learning to live with it.
Like most people in treatment for brain tumors in the United States, I’ve had to adapt to a mind that feels very different from the one I once knew.
“The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss” — memoir by OurBrainBank board member Nicola Nuttall
Nicola Nuttall writes movingly about her daughter Laura who lived an incredible vivid life even after being diagnosed with glioblastoma.