As we partake in the celebration and festivities of this holiday season, I would like to take a moment and remind all of our Facebook friends that brain cancer does not take a holiday.  Neither does the need for support and advocacy for brain tumor patients.   At the Chris Elliott Fund, we like to think [...]

In my own personal journey through cancer, the thing that surprised me the most was the well-meaning advice of friends that could have killed me had I been naive enough to follow it. This includes the myriad of questionable information out there on the internet, especially miracle cures and “natural treatments”. These range from “juice [...]

At 2:30am on Saturday, June 25th 2011, I received a phone call from my best friend, Jack (actually, there were three calls, all of which I missed because I was asleep and my phone was set on silent mode). Later, Jack would tell me he called while driving to OHSU in Portland to meet his [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]