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April 1, 2021: Surrounded by family and supported by dear friends around the globe at the height of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Friedman at Duke University's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center performed the surgery that saved my life. It was followed by 14 more months of treatment - initial chemotherapy and radiation, and then a year of 5 days on / 23 days off of chemotherapy. I will always be grateful to Duke, Virginia Hospital Center, and now UCSF's Brain Tumor Center for

Are you a newly diagnosed brain cancer patient, or a family member or caretaker? Have you been living with a brain tumor and/or brain cancer for awhile, but have not met others on a similar path? If so, I would like to share from my own lived experience how support groups may be beneficial in complementing medical care. Some hospitals and brain cancer centers have dedicated support groups for brain tumor/ brain cancer patients, while others may have more general cancer suppor

September 27, 2025, marked the fifth annual Fast Track to a Cure Bay Area! It was a beautiful and windy day on the Marina Bay Trail in...

June 14, 2025. Today was significant in the United States. Millions of people raised their voices peacefully in the context of...

Four years! What a shift in perspective it has been during this time. I still remember March 31, 2021 very clearly in the lead-up to my...

As my network in the brain cancer community has grown over the past few years, I have had conversations and made observations that shape...

Hope. Inspiration. Joy. Connection. If there were four words I could use to describe this year’s Fast Track to a Cure Bay Area 5K, those...

As I was in the midst of a yoga practice early this morning, my teacher prompted me to think of one word or concept that represents a...

It’s April 1, 2024. Today marks exactly three years since my craniotomy at Duke Cancer Center in North Carolina. The world has changed so...

It’s the beginning of February 2024. In less than two months, I’ll celebrate the third anniversary of my craniotomy, the surgery that I...