Chris Elliott Fund

Entries for the ‘Patient Support’ Category

Caring for the Caregiver

Here’s a new blog from one of our guest bloggers, Stacie Beam-Bruce.  Stacie is the Chris Elliott Fund Integrative Care Specialist and assists in running our Integrative Patient Support Group at The Ben & Catherine Ivy Center.  Stacie’s blog is below, and thank you Stacie for taking the time to be our guest blogger for today: [...]

There’s Only A Handful

It’s almost been ten years since I heard the word Glioblastoma, and in those ten years, I have had the pleasure of meeting only a handful of the most compassionate and endearing brain tumor specialists ( I am sure there are more and I look forward to meeting them) but for now there have been [...]

A Shot of Hope From Dana Farber

A few weeks ago I went to Boston to meet with Dellann Elliott, President, Chris Elliott Fund to learn more about the Chris Elliott Lab for Glioblastoma Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. My friend Lois Melander, whose husband died of brain cancer last year  joined me. We met with the leading research team [...]

CEF’s February Ask Begins: Help us reach our goal!

Would YOU know what to do TODAY if you were diagnosed with brain cancer? What is the next crucial step, is it the right one and how do you know it’s the right one? If YOU were diagnosed with brain cancer TODAY and because time is not on your side with this disease, YOU would [...]