By the time Jennifer Weihe decided to try laser interstitial thermal therapy, or LITT, with neurosurgeon Ganesh Rao, M.D., she’d already been through chemotherapy, two different forms of radiation, two skin cancer surgeries and immunotherapy. Despite all of the aggressive, cutting-edge treatments she received before LITT, the melanoma kept returning to her brain.
Jennifer was one of the first patients to try the new, minimally...
In the late 1990s, doctors began to pay attention to chemobrain, a term used by an increasing number of patients to describe mental symptoms...