Latest from the Blog

1. August 25, 2020

   Build Me Up: Glioblastoma Caregiver Gets National Platform (Q&A)

   

   Corie Yutkin is a member of the NBTS Board of Directors, a long-time advocate, and a dedicated supporter of our vision to conquer and cure brain tumors – once and for all. Corie became involved with NBTS following her husband, Michael’s, glioblastoma diagnosis. Corie and Michael began participating in the Orange County Brain Tumor Walk […]

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   Tags: brain cancer, brain tumor, Community, GBM, glioblastoma
2. July 23, 2020

   Sights & Sounds: Glioblastoma Awareness Day (#GBMDay) 2020

   

   Perhaps Dr. Ned Sharpless, Director of the National Cancer Institute, summed up Glioblastoma (GBM) Awareness Day 2020 best when he said during NBTS’s Defeating GBM: A Virtual Town Hall event, “Events like this are really important to re-energize the community so we can join together and make progress in a disease that where progress has been […]

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   Tags: #GBMDay, advocacy, astrocytoma, brain cancer, brain tumor, brain tumor community, Community, Defeat GBM, FDA, GBM, glioblastoma, glioblastoma multiforme, NCI, Patient life, Treatment
3. July 7, 2020

   The Rights of Brain Tumor Patients That Every Country Should Strive to Deliver

   

   On July 3, 2020, the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS), along with more than 70 of our colleague organizations from across the international brain tumor community, welcomed the release of a new Brain Tumour Patients’ Charter of Rights. The document represents the perspective of brain tumor patients and caregivers and provides a set of standards […]

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   Tags: advocacy, brain cancer, brain tumor, brain tumor community, Patient life, Treatment