Our son has been fighting brain cancer since he was 26, for 11 years now and will be having a second resection of two tumors this spring. I will do anything to help you in your efforts if needed. When your son Beau died, I felt some of your pain, impossible to feel it all; living with that possibility for so long, my husband and I truly mourned along with your family.

Reading always, I found the new herpes-loaded stem cells used to kill cancer cells, GBM brain tumors in particular, a study by Dr. Shah at Mass General, submitted to the FDA, but no clinical trials yet. The stem cells are inserted after the initial resection to kill off the minute cancer cells the surgeon can’t get? I do hope, this therapy becomes a real option sooner rather than later. And I pray it can be used with astrocytomas as well.

If I can help in any way, please contact me, we live in Newport RI. Have organized some pretty nice fund-raisers over the years. spwatterson at gmail