Brain Cancer

Ripon is a small city east of Sacramento, home to around 14,000 people, the kind of place where news travels fast, and neighbors know each other’s children by name. For most of its residents, Weston Elementary School was simply where kids went to learn. Then, over the course of a few years, something began happening …

Something in the human brain can go wrong in ways that modern medicine still cannot fix. Every year, more than 14,000 Americans learn they have glioblastoma, a cancer so aggressive and so resistant to treatment that most patients survive barely more than a year after diagnosis. Surgery can remove parts of it, but the cancer …