Every year, more than 4,000 children and teens in the U.S. develop brain and spinal cord tumors, which are second only to leukemia as the most common childhood cancers. Can SurVaxM, a pioneering brain cancer immunotherapy developed at Roswell Park, work for younger patients?
Brain Tumor
"The goal is to get you back to everything you want to do by three months."
"At Roswell Park, we're not just treating a tumor, we're treating a person. We will tailor a plan to your specific needs and diagnosis."
“Cancer has made me want to prioritize because I’m always working on projects. Now it’s just a matter of which ones are the most important. I want to make sure I finish,” he says.
Since opening in 1998, Roswell Park neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists have performed the advanced radiosurgery on nearly 9,000 patients from across the country and around the globe.
“I don’t care how long the tunnel is. If I see a glimmer of light, I'm going to keep going.”
The words glioma and glioblastoma may look alike, and even sound alike, but the truth is more complicated.
Meningiomas usually occur in people aged 40 to 70 and are more common in women than men. About 3% of people over age 60 develop meningioma.
By highlighting the tumor, Gleolan can help surgeons find and remove some of the glioma’s smaller, aggressively growing cells.
Dr. Fenstermaker says the technology has transformed the way he and other neurosurgeons perform surgeries and help their patients.
Headaches are a very common ailment that most of the time are not a sign of something more serious. A lack of sleep, loud noise, brightness, even changing weather can cause a headache that, for the most part, can be cured with some rest or over-the-counter medicine.
Parents do everything they can to keep their children safe and secure. So when an unexpected cancer diagnosis hits, it’s scary to think that you might have passed your cancer risk along to your children. For almost 700,000 Americans living with a brain tumor, there’s one question: “Is it hereditary?”