Managing Brain Tumors to Maintain Quality of Life: Florida Researcher Recognized for Treatment Approach

A Florida researcher is being recognized for shifting focus from destroying brain tumors to managing them instead. Eric Laywell, a professor at Florida State University’s Department of Biomedical Sciences, is exploring a means to improve  patients’ quality of life, a known casualty in aggressive cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy.

“If the patient can get past the idea that they have a tumor that’s never going away, but it is being managed, they’ll essentially be healthier, and probably happier, too,” Laywell says. Click here to read the full story.