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Looking for resources for friend with brain tumor
Brain Tumor | Last Active: Sep 20, 2018 | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
Hello @andrew_dublin While I am very sorry to read of your friend's diagnosis, it is nice to e-meet you here on Mayo Connect. Unfortunately, any diagnosis of 'brain cancer' is never good news, there are so many new discoveries, new treatments, etc. that there can be wonderful hope! My wife was diagnosed with brain cancer and received her neuro-oncology care at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN campus) for all 14 years of her journey with this disease. .
I cannot speak to the availability of charity care from Mayo, but I do know they have a Cancer Education Center and they have many resources! You can learn more about it at this link https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-visitor-guide/education-centers/cancer-education Also they have a Patient Education Center, which also has some excellent resources. You can learn more about it here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-visitor-guide/education-centers/patient-education-minnesota
It will be important for your friend to learn about what specific form of brain cancer they have since much of the educational materials are focused on the various types of brain cancer. Early in my wife's journey I found some good resources at the American Brain Tumor Association. you can access much of their information online at https://www.abta.org.
I wish you both the best of everything and look forward to hearing from you again as you gain more specifics so folks here can offer more assistance and ideas!
Strength, courage, and peace!
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Thank you so much for your reply Scott. She's not a close friend, she is another parent in my child's elementary school, but I am just interested in finding out whatever I can that might be of help. She's very young (40) with two young kids. As an American living in Ireland, I guess I'm a little worried about the quality of care here - I believe it is very good, but at the same time, I just wonder if there might be better access to experimental treatments or whether there are cases here where they would decide surgery isn't possible that American surgeons might be willing to take on, that kind of thing. Anyhow, really appreciate your taking the time to answer and I will probably post again when I find out more specifics! I'm thinking that if there is any chance there is benefit to having a consultation with someone in the Mayo Clinic maybe we could make that happen.