Natural Treatment for Brain Tumors: What’s Real and What’s Dangerous After her mother’s glioblastoma diagnosis, a colleague of mine spent two weeks doing nothing but research.She wasn’t looking for surgery or radiation information. She was looking for something else — something gentler, something that felt less violent than the treatments the doctors proposed. She found … Read more
Gamma Knife Surgery: What It Is, How It Works, and Who Needs It The name is genuinely confusing.Gamma Knife surgery. The word “knife” suggests cutting. The word “surgery” suggests an operating room, an anesthetic, a recovery ward. It suggests something that happens inside your body while you’re unconscious. None of that is accurate. Gamma Knife … Read more
Chemotherapy and Brain Tumors: How It Works and What to Expect When my neighbor was prescribed chemotherapy for his glioblastoma, his first question surprised his oncologist. “Will I lose all my hair?” It’s the question most people ask first. And the honest answer — for the most common brain tumor chemotherapy drug — is no. … Read more
Chemotherapy and Brain Tumors: How It Works and What to Expect When my neighbor was prescribed chemotherapy for his glioblastoma, his first question surprised his oncologist. “Will I lose all my hair?” It’s the question most people ask first. And the honest answer — for the most common brain tumor chemotherapy drug — is no. … Read more
Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumors: What It Is and What to Expect Three weeks into my friend’s radiation treatment, she told me something unexpected. “It’s nothing like I imagined,” she said. “I thought it would feel like something. It doesn’t feel like anything at all.” That gap between expectation and reality is something almost every … Read more
Brain Tumor Recovery: How Long It Takes and What to Expect The question my neighbor asked his neurosurgeon two days after brain surgery was one of the most human questions I’ve ever heard. “When will I feel like myself again?” The surgeon paused before answering — not because he didn’t know, but because the honest … Read more
Meningioma: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options Explained My aunt found out she had a brain tumor during a routine checkup for something completely unrelated. She went in for a follow-up scan after a minor car accident. No headaches. No neurological symptoms. No reason whatsoever to suspect anything was growing in her head. The radiologist spotted … Read more