 A neurologist treats cancers of the brain and spine, whether they're metastatic tumors that spread to the brain or the spine or primary tumors that begin in those areas. We also help our colleagues with neurological complications of cancer. Any cancer diagnosis, and especially a brain cancer diagnosis, can be overwhelming and wrought with emotions. It's a good day for me when I can meet a patient with our team for the first time. They come in overwhelmed and they leave with a well-defined plan so that we know how we're going to help them over the weeks and months to follow. Historically, brain tumors present a number of challenges in treatment, both through drug development and drug delivery. But our hope is to continue to push forward in terms of finding the underlying genetic changes that make glioblastoma grow and invade and through that to design sensible, effective yet minimally toxic therapies that can move the needle in terms of brain tumor care. We try to offer all of our patients the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial of a novel therapy, something that's cutting edge, that can add to the progress that we've made with standard of care therapies. The brain tumor team, we look at genetic abnormalities within their tumors that make their tumor unique from someone else that may have a tumor by the same name. The mutations and other aberrations in DNA that we can uncover help us define targeted therapies that attack what might be pushing the growth and invasion of the tumor and at the same time trying to minimize toxicity or side effects. We also look at classes of medications like immunotherapy which have had great success in other types of cancers and try to translate that to glioblastoma. At JTCC, which comprises neurosurgical oncologists, neuro-oncologists like myself, ethologists, neuroradiologists, all of the particular expertise in brain cancer, we all work together in real time in a physical brain tumor center so that we can make the care for the patient as streamlined and compassionate as possible, but also to offer a multidisciplinary plan in real time.