Brain Tumor Action Network

Of the 90 or so Bailey students awarded degrees that day, she was the
only one who had to go through Hurricane Katrina and a brain tumor to get
hers.

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On March 28th, 2007 I went spontaneously deaf in my left ear. Yes. it apparently can happen just like that. It’s called Sudden Onset Sensory Neural Healing Loss and it happens every day, mostly to old people. Evidently, the cochlea just wakes up and decides to stop working.

It was the general consensus of my entire medical team that this was — for me — in fact a late-effect rearing it’s ugly head after all that Chernobyl-level head radiation I had when I was being treated for brain cancer in 1996.

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The researchers’ analysis revealed that survivors of medulloblastoma and
osteosarcoma reported the most inactive lifestyles. Also associated with
inactivity were treatments with cranial radiation or amputation as well as
other factors, …

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