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	<description>Putting Our Heads Together</description>
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		<title>Jackson grad endures loss of home, brain tumor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The Taking Tree: Late Effects Are Teh Awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 06:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Making an Audience Think vs. Making Them Feel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 03:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“People will not usually remember what you say, but they always remember how you made them feel.”

I remember stumbling across this Warren Beatty quote a few years back. To be honest, for the longest time I struggled with attributing something seemingly profound to a Hollywood actor but I guess I got over that.]]></description>
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		<title>Mother-to-be sacrifices her chance of surviving cancer for her baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She leaned on her husband, using his strength to hide her unsteadiness. Her steps were tentative, measured, cautious, with her gait more typical of a woman decades older than her late 20s. She could still walk, shake hands and almost smile, at least with one side of her mouth; she couldn't let the tumor take those gifts away -- not yet. She had to stay healthy another few weeks, until her baby was born.]]></description>
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		<title>Mom carries out wishes of girl who died of rare cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every night before she falls asleep, Annette McKeon kisses a picture of her daughter.  “I love you Aimee,” she says softly, and then squeezes a Teddy bear named Hope. A recording of Aimee’s voice plays from inside. “I love you Mom.”  Some nights, she squeezes the toy over and over again.  “It keeps her alive,” Ms. McKeon says.

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		<title>Neurosurgery meets Social Media</title>
		<link>http://btan.org/index.php/2009/04/15/neurosurgery-meets-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neurosurgeons at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit used Twitter and YouTube to post live real-time updates of a brain surgery.]]></description>
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		<title>Flats &#8220;hero&#8221; is gone, but his cause lives on</title>
		<link>http://btan.org/index.php/2009/03/29/flats-hero-is-gone-but-his-cause-lives-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nuclear bombs Charlie Wolf built helped win the Cold War. But his toughest battles came afterward, when he applied to a troubled federal compensation program intended for those whose top-secret work made them sick.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Good Day L.A.&#8217; brings welcome news to an Oxnard student</title>
		<link>http://btan.org/index.php/2008/03/25/good-day-la-brings-welcome-news-to-an-oxnard-student/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most young women Melissa McClelland's age are worried about looking their best — finding just the right dress, makeup, hairstyle and jewelry.  But the 22-year-old Ventura College student doesn't have the luxury of that kind of angst. Instead, Melissa worries about the brain cancer that recurred five months ago. ]]></description>
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		<title>A 4-year-old&#8217;s epic battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last August, Caiden Steinhoff was diagnosed with medulla blastoma, the most common brain tumor in children. Following brain surgery, the Thunder Bay boy has undergone four chemotherapies, each of which wipes out his immune system.]]></description>
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		<title>Child&#8217;s Dying Wish Going Unfulfilled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heartbroken family of a 10-year-old Nebraska girl diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, who is not expected to live through the end of the month, say the Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied the child's dying wish: that her incarcerated father be furloughed to be by his child's bedside when she dies.]]></description>
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