The Essential Guide to Brain Tumors

This easy-to-read and comprehensive 80-page booklet about brain tumors contains valuable information for newly diagnosed patients, long-term survivors, family members and health professionals.

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2007 Resource Directory

This updated and redesigned 94-page directory includes current listings for various cancer support organizations, complementary and alternative therapy resources, financial assistance organizations, and much more.

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Coping With Your Loved One's Brain Tumor

This is a 24-page brochure that describes important coping strategies for caregivers and family members of a loved one with a brain tumor.

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En Español: Cómo Enfrentar un Tumor Cerebral en un Ser Querido

(In Spanish: Coping With Your Loved One's Brain Tumor)

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Understanding Glioblastoma Multiforme

This 16-page brochure helps patients and caregivers understand more about the diagnosis and treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme.

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Returning to Work: Is It Right For You?

This brochure reviews brain tumor survivors' rights with respect to returning to work and suggests several strategies to make it an easier transition to go back into the workplace.

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Understanding Brain Metastases: A Guide for Patient and Caregiver

This guide explains brain metastases and their treatment and provides information about symptom management for the patient and the family caregiver.

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10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor

Doctor visits can be overwhelming and many patients aren't sure what they should ask in such a short amount of time. This fact sheet has 10 common questions that are good ones to have answers to.

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How Tumors Affect the Mind, Emotion and Personality

This fact sheet describes some of the cognitive changes that can occur due to a brain tumor and its treatments.

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Who Gets Brain Tumors and Why?

Unfortunately, there is still not enough information to know exactly what causes brain tumors. However, this fact sheet describes some of the research that is currently being done to investigate this question and what some of the theories are.

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How to Choose a Treatment Center and Issues to Consider

Trying to know what center to go to for treatment can be daunting. This fact sheet describes what to look for in a brain tumor treatment center and what questions to ask before choosing where to receive treatment.

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How and Why to Get a Second Opinion

This fact sheet describes why a second opinion is a good idea and how to get one.

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Clinical Trials for Brain Tumors

This fact sheet describes what clinical trials are, the differences between Phase I, II and III and whether you should consider finding one for treatment.

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Clinical Trials: How to Get Access

Written by Patty Delaney of the FDA, this fact sheet describes how to find a clinical trial that's right for you and what information you need to have.

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Overview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies

This fact sheet describes how Complementary and Alternative Therapies can be used during treatment for a brain tumor and what some of the more common therapies are.

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Pilocytic Astrocytoma in the Adult

While Pilocytic Astrocytoma is usually found in children and teens, it can occasionally occur in adults. This fact sheet discusses the symptoms and treatment for this type of tumor when it is diagnosed in an adult.

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En Español: Preguntas Sobre Los Tumores Cerebrales

A fact sheet in Spanish on brain tumors.

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En Español: Cómo los tumores afectan la mente, las emociones y la personalidad

This fact sheet is the Spanish version of "How Tumors Affect the Mind, Emotion and Personality."

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Fall 2007, Issue No. 73

This Search features:

-Adjusting to the New Normal: Learning to Be A Survivor
-Studying the Needs of Caregivers
-Coping with Ambiguous Loss
-Returning to Work
-One Family's Work to Make A Difference

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Spring 2007, Issue No. 71

This Search features:

How to Talk with Your Children About Your Brain Tumor
Research Grant Awards
Survivor Story by Valerie Whitehill
Financial Survey Results

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