The Liz Army:
A blog
Patient. Patient advocate. Researcher. Student.
There are more than 500 posts here. Use this search to look for something specific. Good luck!
A note about my oldest posts: I began blogging about brain cancer in 2008, at age 29. I had no background or knowledge about healthcare when I started. Please excuse typos and other misconceptions. What you read here is me in real time, like a time capsule.
Breaking down the barriers to clinical trials
We have a problem with clinical trials for people with brain tumors: Not enough people are enrolling in clinical trials, and many trial sites fail to meet enrollment needs required to conduct trials.
Precision medicine and brain cancer
The big question is, which trial is the right one? Will I be that unicorn patient who might live a life that is statistically longer than the current patient population? And with the cognitive decline that comes with brain cancer, would this be a kind of life I’d want to live?