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Glioma

Patient Stories

  • Curtis and three people with his orange shirts on

    Suiting up for a celebration

    "My sweet boy," Deborah Morey said as she practically skipped across the room to join him in a group photograph. The boy is her son, 15-year-old Curtis Morey, who was diagnosed with medulloblastoma (a type of brain tumor) on Jan. 27, 2012. ...

  • Cynthia Amendt

    Cynthia Amendt

    Artist and teacher Cynthia Amendt sees her teaching — and her health — reach new levels through participation in a clinical trial.

  • Andy Walch

    Andy Walch

    Surgery and an investigational drug give brain tumor patient much more than anyone expected.

  • Jayden Gonzalez and his parents

    Jayden Gonzalez

    When a brain tumor unexpectedly appeared in 20-month-old Jayden Gonzalez, Mayo Clinic doctors responded quickly to remove the tumor and restore his health.

  • Laurie Beach

    Laurie Beach

    A rare brain tumor couldn't stop Laurie Beach from enjoying the life she dreamed of.

  • Jacob Harpel

    Jacob Harpel

    When their son developed a rare type of brain tumor that caused seizures and dizzy spells, Koreen and Paul Harpel turned to Mayo Clinic for help.

  • Jordan Mills

    Jordan Mills: Fighting the Unseen Enemy, Part II

    Following radiation therapy and chemotherapy treatment at Mayo Clinic for a brain stem glioma, the tumor which had threatened Jordan Mills' life, had shrunk. Jordan's life continued full of happy events. He married his fiancée, Kelly, in June 2009, and bought his ...

  • Jordan Mills

    Jordan Mills: Fighting the Unseen Enemy, Part I

    Jordan Mills is a man's man. Enlisted in the U.S. military in 2004, Jordan was deployed around the world, serving in countries as diverse as Japan, Korea and Afghanistan. But "after my first combat deployment," Jordan says, "I started noticing ...

  • Morgan Tyner

    Morgan Tyner: Overcoming Brain Cancer

    In the fall of 1990, Morgan Tyner experienced a moment that would change his life forever. While at work, Morgan, a newly practicing dentist, suffered a seizure. After undergoing many tests over the course of several days, he received a ...

  • Andrew Mork

    Pilocytic Astrocytoma – Andrew Mork – Update

    This is an update to Andrew Mork's story, "It really should be called The Mayo Family", from over a year and a half ago. We have caught back up with both Andrew and his mom for an updated video interview ...

  • Andrea Miller

    Hurt and Healing

    By: Andrea Miller Birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, graduation gifts...we're set in a society that longs after gifts.  I have learned, however, that the most important gift one can receive is a clean bill of health.  I have not had the ...

  • Jacob Harpel and his mother.

    Jacob Harpel's Thanksgiving Story

    Eight-year-old Jacob Harpel from Glencoe, Minn., was diagnosed with a plum-sized brain tumor the day before Thanksgiving last year. He had aggressive brain surgery at Mayo Clinic in August to remove the tumor; with the surgery he had a 50% ...

  • Jill Camirand

    Jill Camirand: Off and Running

    Jill Camirand likes to keep moving. When she finished college in New Hampshire the first thing she did was get on a train and go. She didn't have a particular destination in mind, she just wanted to see where it ...

  • Raley Mae

    Teen regains life after bout with brain tumor

    Raley Mae Radomske was all set to begin a new chapter in her life the summer of 2009 when the unthinkable happened. A national rodeo champion, Radomske, 18, experienced a seizure as she was readying for her move from her ...

  • Ali is seizure free and still dancing

    When Ali Nowotny was just 15, she began to"blank out." It was summer of 2006, and she was working as a waitress in her hometown of Rapid City, S.D. The episodes occurred about once a month, and left her "spaced ...

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