The Conversation I Never Get Right
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Peyton Washington remembers her mother Jenny, longtime Oklahoma Proton Center leader, and her glioblastoma diagnosis.
Decades of outcomes data from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital show that proton therapy significantly reduces neurocognitive late effects, hearing loss, and endocrine dysfunction in children treated for brain tumors.
Decades of evidence showing proton therapy’s ability to protect developing brains in children with cancer are now driving a reassessment of how we treat adult brain tumors, with profound implications for quality of life.
Dr. David Sandberg, a pioneering pediatric neurosurgeon and author of Brain and Heart, joins The Cancer Project to discuss treating childhood brain tumors, navigating impossible conversations with families, and the profound lessons learned operating in Haiti, where pure medicine meets its most brutal constraints.