Brain Tumor Talk Radio

This episode will give you the chance to express your feelings on brain tumors, and the lack of research, funding, and awareness given to brain tumors. We will also pay tribute to the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy.Don't miss this episode, if you ever wanted to get some of the frustration off your chest, now is the time. Keep in mind, we are on radio so keep it clean.

Hope and support play an important role in the fight against brain cancer. Find out from brain tumor survivors how hope played an important role in their fights with brain tumors.Our special guest this evening is Cathy Broyles, a fellow brain cancer survivor, and author of "Life's Mountains", through which she found an similar correlation between her climb of Mt. Shasta and her fight with a terminal form of brain cancer.

Dr. Alex Stegh, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Northwestern University has been working on using nanoparticles to deliver various agents to brain tumors.Nanoparticles give a way to deliver agents across the blood brain barrier.

Nutrition plays an important role in the battle against a brain tumor. We are pleased and honored to have Carolyn Katzin, Certified Nutrition Specialist who specialiszes in cancer nutrition. Carolyn just recently participated in the UCLA Brain Tumor Conference. She is also an author, and founder of a cancer nutrition website.If you, or someone you know is touched by cancer, you can't miss this episode! This is Part 2 of our segment on exercise and nutrition.

Dealing with a brain tumor diagnosis from the perspective of a caregiver.

Is it possible that exercise and nutrition help to fight brain tumors? Listen in to the show and find out! We will learn how exercise and nutrition play a role in the fight against cancer.

This episode will focus on methods of less invasive surgery. This includes several new and novel approaches to treat brain tumors.

This episode will focus on what standard treatment options are available for brain tumors. This show will also stress the importance of going to a facility that specializes in brain tumors, and how brain tumor facilities are different from local communty hospitals.Guest: Dr. Duane Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke