NY Yankees Fundraiser June 21! This is more of a get together than a fundraiser. I would love to meet in person those of you who I only speak to online!
Tickets are $75 each (Would cost over $100 at the box office). To buy tickets, go to virtualtrials.com/yankees
If that is too expensive for you, contact me and we have a few tickets that we can give away - but they go fast, so reply to this email immediately if interested! Preference given to brain tumor patients and their families - so mention that in your email!
Please pass this along to your friends!
Mechanisms of neovascularization and resistance to anti-angiogenic therapies in glioblastoma multiforme. This is the type of thinking I love to see. I have always thought that the cure is going to be in a well thought out cocktail of drugs - such as an anti-angiogenesis drug which does work pretty well for a while, as well as targetted therapies that shut down all of the possible resistance pathways. Perhaps throw in other treatments such as vaccines and tumor treating fields and we may hit a home run someday soon.
Treatment outcome and prognostic factors of adult glioblastoma multiforme. This article talks about the outcomes for GBM patients treated with the standard treatments in Iran. Average progression free survival was 6 months and average survival was 11 months. Only 7% of patients had a complete resection.
Here in the USA, a much higher % of patients get complete resections, and the average survival with standard treatments is over 18 months. There are some small trials that reported overall survivals of 38 months.
This points out the need not only for us to find the best treatments but to make sure they get out to the rest of the world. WIth the latest treatments being so expensive, that might not happen for a long time or ever. Something has to be done about that. I have no idea how to approach it. Any ideas?
