Love is in the air: unlock your giver's heart

 In the month of February, we live in the realm of romance. Across the world, chocolates, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between lovers, all in the name of St. Valentine. 

Rose day marks the beginning of Valentine's week or love week. It is celebrated on February 7 every year followed by propose day, chocolate day, teddy day, promise day, hug day, kiss day, and Valentine's Day.

But who is this mysterious saint and where did these traditions come from? 

There is an important cultural, religious and commercial spree of love without knowing how did he become associated with this ancient rite?

The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.

The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, disobeyed Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. He also helped Christians escape harsh Roman prisons.

Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day. Indeed there are several martyrdom stories associated with Valentine.

It is rather more likely that the saints are the successors to pre-Christian pagan deities connected to certain times of the year and that each preserves a part of a deity's aura and mythical functions. In other words, the imaginal substance of a saint is composed of a subtle blend of paganism and Christianity. From this point of view, the worship of saints seeks to absorb the polytheistic tendencies of the pre-Christian religion into the monotheistic framework of Christianity.

Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of the jailor. The legend goes he wrote a letter to the jailer's daughter signing " your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution.

The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of modern-day love. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day.

Still, others insist that it was Saint Valentine of Terni, a bishop, who was the true namesake of the holiday. He, too, was beheaded by Claudius II outside Rome.

The truth behind the Valentine legends is murky.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem is a dream vision portraying a parliament of birds to choose their names. The idea that Valentine’s Day is a day for lovers is thought to originate with Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls, a poem written in the late 14th century. It describes a group of birds which gather together in the early spring – on ‘seynt valentynes day’ – to choose their mates for the year.

The first paragraph translated into modern English means

The life so short, the craft so long to learn,

The assay so hard, so sharp the conquering,

The fearful joy that slips away in turn,

All this mean I by Love, that my feeling

Astonishes with its wondrous working

So fiercely that when I on love do think

I know not well whether I float or sink.

Few people know that the last day of February is celebrated as Rare disease day.

There are over 300 million people living with one or more of over 6,000 identified rare diseases around the world, each supported by family, friends, and a team of carers that make up the rare disease community.

Each rare disease may only affect a handful of people, scattered around the world, but taken together the number of people directly affected is equivalent to the population of the world’s third-largest country.

Rare diseases currently affect 3.5% - 5.9% of the worldwide population.

72% of rare diseases are genetic whilst others are the result of infections (bacterial or viral), allergies, and environmental causes, or are degenerative and proliferative.

70% of those genetic rare diseases start in childhood.

A disease is defined as rare in Europe when it affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people.

~rarediseaseday.org.

In the European Union (EU), rare diseases (RD) are officially defined as disorders affecting no more than 5 per 10,000 persons. These are life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases with a low prevalence and a high level of complexity.

In India, patient organizations first became involved in Rare Disease Day in 2010. Most of the population are unaware and they are not treated with equality.

 Here I not only faced challenges in my childhood days because I never looked like I was sick, but I also looked cheerful, with big observant eyes filled with curiosity but everything was wrong internally. 

When the money-minded, relatives ditched us after my father perished, Mum with her neat and orderly mind kept her struggle with survival moving forward.

 The early years were toughest: we had no money and no idea what to eat the next day. The relations with a twisted mentality are still fighting and trying to swat me out of the way.

The challenge was thrown down our way has been quite an adventure, setbacks with hard work and luck involved.

Going down memory lane, how I survived so many surgeries including my landmark liver transplant, kidney cancer, MDR TB, and obviously fighting brain tumors more than folksies have lice on their head, is indeed a marvel, a wonder indicating God's intervention. As mountains rose on my way it couldn't startle and I didn't quiver with fear.

I live in a realm where with Mum's support I can move the mountains with determination and resolve.

So, all I want to say is dear friends don't just think about your loved ones and love life, love your neighbor as yourself.

Love one another, have mercy on those who need support to survive. Your life would turn out to be heavenly 

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Life is a comedy: when life offers reasons to cry, show life you can smile and be strong

  

The day started sunny and crispy

Birds twittering on the branches of the tree ahead of the house

In severe aloneness; childhood journey to adolescence

The fierce unremitting aloneness: you are in every sense of isolation

The realization that life is so stunning yet short

Makes you feel an incredible elation

With confidence, you try climbing the mountain top 

Never brooding, in fear you can't douse

With impertinence and refusal to conform

With the uniqueness of wisdom

It was a chilly winter's night

Evening stars were shining bright

Winter shook the bones and with chattering teeth in unison, 

When you celebrate peace, and pleasure, joy and bliss

But cared none

You notice something amiss

Lightning crackled and Thunderstorm boomed

Life is certainly a breath of fresh air

As the  heinous madness loomed

With disagreement, hideous, outlandish monstrosity 

Imbecility, laughter, power, money, persuasion

Supplication, persecution

You still live fervently 

Being sad, utterly tired, is common in your  gloom

How you cope with a death sentence 

With intelligence and adaptability of modern virus

Worrying is disastrous 

Does not tell anyone about your adventurous will and acceptance

Inspire us how you fight the messenger of doom

Any life is better than none

Instead of going to your oblivion

Aficionado you turn.

Life itself is only a vision, a dream, but very risky

Not indulgence but with will power you struggle to face the malady

Heroes, Victims, Martyrs, Warriors choose your destiny

Pursuing passions is never too late. 

Channeling energies and enthusiasms into things that you care 

 Don't crush yourself into a boring, troubled existence. 

In utter hopelessness glowing hope is born

Doing at least one invaluable thing during your life—

You leave a trail of your spirit after you are gone.

When the embittered mind is in tatters, despair, and confusion

Hope is lurking in the brain in every cranny.

Rouse up will to do a worthwhile thing shucking negativity

That's how life should be embraced with passion and positivity

You can delay your end of their divinely ordained duty.

Vitality is life and the punchline is dodge fear embrace positivity

Your unique identity created in your dancing chromosomes

Arise the cyclone

Gollum's raspy guttural comic tragedy

There's no ring to extend life from your death chemistry

Don't hallucinate

On your fate

Not succumbing to gloom and self-pity

With everyday challenges and intimidations, not murdering time

You continue your climb

In deep-reaching isolation

Faced with determination

Without any hallucination

Life becomes a comedy

Beyond fears and limitations

 

Ethan climbed the cliff straight up very high

With guts and nerves without a sigh

The Intelligence Agent climbs the mountains without pain

A witty Sherlock jump the falls headlong using brain

With a portable cylinder of oxygen 

Her fortune, health, money gone

The tough and rough times she's undergone

Worse and worse grow the evil curse

Many uncharted territories she had to traverse

Where the eagles, look with a pitiless glare

In the wide realm of wild reality, she faced glaring stare

Waking  up in the morning, with an awful aching head

O the blues! Weary blues!

Her strong will!

She enjoyed a life of thrill!

Steeled nerves 

Since she was born

"I will win the game" her spirit has sworn

Mind focusing on "Hurrah for positive science!"

Equally positive she can climb up to the incandescent stars

Listening to Bob Dylan's guitar

As afresh wave of consciousness untangled a knot in the nerves

With the power of positive thinking

Grief became a melody

She felt the tears in the vale became a delightful glee

 I am going towards my expectation 

Reasoning closely with introspection 

Discarding the junk of other minds

Strewn in the track of which she had an inkling 

With fierce, fearless mind climbing uphill

She thought as I get troubled in body and mind

Her hand slipped

But she gave a dazzling smile

Tarry awhile 

The mother becomes a fierce Goddess

Climbing at her old age regardless 

"Look around you, don't be blind"

She has a perfect handle on the situation

Take control, show your strength and comprehension

She said with angelic resignation 

A dream of hopes of your pure mind

Concentrating on the problems and difficulties

The apt solution she will find 

Her absent-mindedness will make her subject of cruelties

They are working towards a dream

Alarmingly hanging by one hand under the moonbeam

She swerved to the left rock with a smiling face

She's not blind from within, shows her grace

She climbs up and up to the top leading the way

Mother heard the howling pack of wolves coming towards them, 

Springing to her feet, drawing on the sword progressed fearless mum

The pack accompanied them and she felt they are not the prey

She was intrigued that an aura of brightness is hovering over her top

Her Dreams! Would vividly color  life, 

And end the fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

With faith superior to hope

 With the quiet precision of science, God will sort problems,

As with aplomb, they proceed towards the hilltop.

The eternal state of the human mind-a theory

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ~ Horace Walpole

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect—the knowledge of the brain? ~ Dracula

The lifetime blues made me face anything and the nerves caused disorders that became the target of treatment and debate between doctors. Oh, no! I don't have any psychological illness but physiological disorders. 

A deeper import lurks in the legend told my infant years than lies upon that truth we live to learn.

 

 One of the intellectual strengths of humans is the ability to imagine impossible things. When you have the fullest flower of intelligence, personality, and pluck.

Virginia Woolf, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath especially Robin Williams are historical figures in the field of psychology because of their mental disturbance.

I too have the horrible ailment 'Neurasthenia' minus any emotional disturbance excluding my well-known anger.

I am never hostile, I am bold to stand against any sort of injustice or opinion or deed which is not morally good. There's no 'yelling’ and ‘melancholy’ madness.

My anger is like the basic human emotions, as elemental as happiness, sadness, anxiety, or disgust. These emotions are related to my basic survival and were honed over the course of the history of my life. Anger is related to the “fight, flight, or freeze” response of the sympathetic nervous system; it prepares humans to fight. But fighting doesn't necessarily mean throwing punches; it might propel communities to combat injustice trying to change laws and thoughts or enforcing new behavioral norms. Thus this is my tool for survival and I get angry against anything done wrong. 

Prolonged-release of the stress hormones that accompany anger can cause physical suffering. Sometimes emotional states, particularly stress and anxiety, can also increase my anger. My anger had never been jealous anger, in my instability, vulnerability, and continuity of pain a hollow feeling of the sorrow, of grudge, would not lead my battle to a successful end. 

The mind is bogged down by lingering illness, it goes swoon to a tee but those who want to flee are held by a shackle to God's project "Earth".

I have nothing to lose, I can't try to live again a perfect life, relaxed and healthy, under trees bearing chocolates, mountains of books but being less imaginary I say I don't want to lose this life with my Mum and the instances of delights divided by twilight.

The midbrain dopamine system comprises a group of dopamine-releasing neurons and their axonal projections in the brain. Although the dopamine system contains only a small set of neurons, this little population exerts a strong influence over a large area of the brain through dense and wide axonal dendrite. Dopamine neurons organize a variety of neural functions, including voluntary movement, action selection, motivation, reward-related learning, and memory. Serotonin helps regulate mood and is often called the body's natural "feel-good" chemical.

Serotonin contributes to normal bowel function and reduces appetite as I eat to help you know when I'm full. The neurotransmitter also plays a protective role in the gut. But my Mum is the antithesis trying to stuff food inside me even when I am full.

I don't know if this"feel-good" hormone is really controlling my sleep or bone density because my legs are getting weaker and I knew this might happen someday and hence after my surgeries, even liver transplant I never opted for a wheelchair. The kind helpers used to offer me one but I denied it.

After surviving a life-threatening surgery when the doctor said "Everything is in God's hands" I always felt rewarding and felt good, woohoo! "How many times does this make?"

Feels like Tom Cruise's rock-climbing. Life is a vast and big cliff and climbs alone enjoying it. Once you slip at a precarious moment, slide and almost fall off it doesn't mean "the end" of your story. It's like Watson writing about Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty falling in the waterfalls and Holmes sneaking into the room and adding a question mark. 

You live because of your intellect, wit, talent, cleverness at the moment of need. Holmes survived because of Mycroft's portable oxygen cylinder and Cruise did because he slips and almost falls but grabs on it with one hand hanging on then swings around to the spacing outward in a scary position with a smile on his face not having spiderman's powers he successfully climbs up. This is rewarding and feels good and alive.

Wrist-cutting arriviste doesn't know various religions of the world have traditionally condemned suicide because, as they believe, human life fundamentally belongs to God.

The Italian poet Dante Aligheri, in “The Inferno,” reasoned from traditional Catholic beliefs and placed those who had committed the sin of suicide on the seventh level of hell, where they exist in the form of trees that painfully bleed when cut or snipped.

In Hinduism, suicide is referred to by the Sanskrit word “atmahatya,” literally meaning “soul-murder.” “Soul-murder” is said to produce a string of karmic reactions that prevent the soul from obtaining liberation. According to the Hindu philosophy of birth and rebirth, if not reincarnated, souls linger on the earth, and at times, trouble the living.

Buddhism also prohibits suicide, or aiding and supporting the act, because such self-harm causes more suffering rather than relieving it, suicide violates a fundamental Buddhist moral precept: to refrain from taking life.

 Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disorder that is characterized by hallucinations, delusions, loss of initiative, and general cognitive dysfunction. Its human-specific character and its genetic origin, coupled with its similar prevalence across societies varying in climate, level of urbanization, culture, industrialization etc., led to the early hypothesis that human brain evolution may have played a role in vulnerability to the disorder. They have a sort of disconnectivity problem-- disruptions of these 'organs of connection'.

Bipolar disorder is a common and chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by mood disturbances with recurrent episodes of mania, hypomania, and depression interspersed by euthymic periods with none or subsyndromal mood symptoms. Studies, been associated with less grey matter volume in prefrontal brain areas.

Findings indicate that neuroanatomical traits potentially impacted by bipolar disorder are significantly associated with multiple neurobehavioural domains. Findings suggest in the case of depressive disorder impaired reward-related learning signals in the ventral tegmental area during remission in patients with depression. This merits further investigation to identify impaired reward-related learning as an endophenotype for recurrent depression. Moreover, the inverse association between reinforcement learning and anhedonia(inability to feel pleasure) in patients implies an additional disturbing influence of anhedonia on reward-related learning or vice versa, suggesting that the level of anhedonia should be considered in behavioral treatments.

All such brain-behavior problems need optimism and are treatable.

My will power and mental concentration when my physical body, the container of my spirit which needs repairing so often is the most dangerous disease state ever seen on the planet, and my recuperative power and the enjoyment of my mother's love when I make her furious are beyond imagination.

Fog hovering

Opaque, phantasmal

Mistral howling

Mind shut like a clam

Keep out the dust

Live in glory

Wracked fade in forgetfulness

Live heroically

 

 

Gray vapor around

Grayness of tint

The sky made of ash

Spleenful murky gray clouds

Inky black firmament

Impertinent comment

Wise and profound 

 

Grayness wrapping wings around

Hollow minds their indulgence

Insensate people

Where all is calm,

Calm is calm, just silence,

Hiemal comments

Walking on a tightrope plunging the fog 

Makes it a thrilling dream.

Proton vs Photon positivity vs negativity

 The vast Universe has many mysteries. The curiosity of humans led to the discovery of telescope, radio waves. The marvelous calculation and curiosity leading to the moment of discovery with the quickening of the pulse as the apple drops from the tree. The man jumps up from a bathtub; the tricky equation balances itself.

The antithesis—that is hardly recorded: the discovery of the failure. It is a moment that a scientist often confronts alone when a wrong diagnosis or a denied treatment leads to the killing of a creative sufferer.

In the times of a novel virus let's talk about a novel discovery. 

Dr. Robert Wilson described the basis for using proton beam therapy for the treatment of cancer as early as 1946. The early proton facilities were mainly physics research laboratories that seldom treated patients with cancer. We now have several dedicated proton facilities for the treatment of cancer. 

First, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays using a cathode ray tube (CRT) in 1895. Then, Antoine Henri Becquerel detected radioactivity in 1896 using a photographic plate and uranium salts of phosphorescent materials. This was followed by the identification of electrons for the first time using a CRT in 1897 by Sir J. J. Thomson. Two years later, in 1899, Ernest Rutherford discovered α-particles in the radiation emitted from uranium salts, following which, in 1909, Geiger and Marsden observed that an α-particle deflects at an angle of more than 90°when it strikes a gold foil. The following year, Geiger showed that the largest possible deflection of a particle passing through a thin gold foil was less than 1°. It was very difficult to understand that the large deflection angle of the α-particles after they struck thin gold foil was a result of the sum of multiple small deflections. In the same year, Sir J. J. Thomson proposed a theory to explain this strange behavior of α-particles. His atomic structure model suggested that an atom consists of a number of negative charges accompanied by an equal number of positive charges uniformly distributed in a sphere. Using this model, he hypothesized that the large deflections would not take place without the positively- and uniformly-charged sphere being very much smaller than the size of the whole atom. Building on the knowledge gained from experimental work and theories, Ernest Rutherford suggested a simple atomic structure model that was able to explain the large deflection behavior. He described that, according to his model, an atom contains negative charges uniformly distributed in a sphere surrounding positive charges at its central point. He determined that the large deflection must have been caused by a single collision. This idea successfully explained how α-particles exhibited large deflections while passing through thin gold foils. This came to be known as the “Rutherford Scattering Experiment,” which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus in 1911. During that year, Rutherford published a new atomic model showing that an atom consists of electrons orbiting around a very small nucleus in which most of the atomic mass and charge is concentrated. He needed eight more years to uncover the detailed structure of the atomic nucleus.

Rutherford was the first researcher to propose the development of a particle accelerator to enable further research regarding the atomic nucleus. This was the beginning of research into nuclear and high energy physics that would lead to the application of particle accelerators to the medical field years later.

Dr. Robert Wilson described the basis for using proton beam therapy for the treatment of cancer as early as 1946. The early proton facilities were mainly physics research laboratories that seldom treated patients with cancer. We now have several dedicated proton facilities for the treatment of cancer. There are several current clinical applications for proton beam therapy including prostate, lung, pediatric, central nervous system cancers, and several other malignancies.

High energy proton beams with features such as deep penetration, little scatter, and Bragg peak effect attracted physicians. With those distinctive features, it became possible to deliver a dose of radiation to selected areas in the body.

Too much radiation kills healthy tissue. In other words, the beneficial effects of radiation therapy occur when a lethal dose of radiation is deposited in the area of cancer and the harmful effects of radiation therapy occur when healthy tissue is inadvertently irradiated while trying to treat cancer.

The electrons can be made to strike a tungsten target within the head of the accelerator to create a beam of photons (or “X-rays”). These X-ray beams are then directed at the site of cancer. Photons have no charge or mass and can be regarded as small packets of energy. Photons deposit their energy along the entire path that they travel through the body. Therefore, a beam of X-rays irradiates not only the area of cancer but also the healthy tissue that the beam encounters on its way towards the tumor and beyond the tumor. X-rays used for treating cancer usually do not stop within the body. X-rays travel right through you. On the other hand, proton beam therapy is delivered by larger, much more expensive accelerators called cyclotrons and synchrotrons.

Standard radiation therapy has evolved and improved over the years and is effective in controlling many cancers. However, because X-ray beams are composed of primary photons and secondary electrons, they deposit their energy along the path of the beam, to the targeted tumor and beyond, and deliver radiation to healthy tissues before and after the tumor site. This radiation “exit dose” may cause health issues later because it can damage the normal tissue or organs near the tumor or area of concern.

The advantage of proton therapy (also called proton beam therapy) is that the physician can control where the proton releases the bulk of its cancer-fighting energy. As the protons move through the body, they slow down and interact with electrons, and release energy. The point where the highest energy release occurs is the “Bragg peak.” A physician can designate the Bragg peak’s location, causing the most damage to the targeted tumor cells. A proton beam conforms to the shape and depth of a tumor while sparing healthy tissues and organs.

By contrast, proton therapy delivers a beam of proton particles that stops at the tumor, so it’s less likely to damage nearby healthy tissues. Some experts believe that proton therapy is safer than traditional radiation, but there is limited research comparing the two treatments.

~ says National Cancer Institute 

On the other hand, proton beam therapy is delivered by larger, much more expensive accelerators called cyclotrons and synchrotrons.

A proton beam directed at a tumor travels in a straight trajectory towards its target, gives off most of its energy at a defined depth called the Bragg peak, and then stops. While X-rays often deposit more energy within the healthy tissues of the body than within cancer.

Compared with X-rays, proton beam therapy has the ability to improve cure rates by increasing the dose delivered to the tumor and simultaneously reduce side effects by decreasing the dose to surrounding healthy tissue.

A method of delivering therapeutic radiation to the target volume located at a predetermined depth from the skin with an array of mini beams at the surface in an amount spatially arranged and sized to maintain a tissue-sparing effect from the skin to a proximal size of the target volume and to merge into a target beam into the proximal side of the target volume. A gap between the parallel spatially distinct mini beams at the surface such that the array merges into a solid beam at a predetermined beam energy and across all energies for Bragg-peak spreading at the proximal side of the target volume.

The brain is another obvious site where there are advantages to using proton beam therapy compared with photons. The brain parenchyma, brainstem, optic structures, and hypothalamic–pituitary axis are examples of normal tissues that are potentially subject to the harmful effects of irradiation.Although CNS hemangioblastomas are often defining lesions in VHL patients, supratentorial and retrobulbar hemangioblastomas in particular are rare.4,5 In a study of 160 VHL patients with CNS involvement examined at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 655 hemangioblastomas were identified by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with 250 occurring in the cerebellum, 64 in the brainstem, 331 in the spinal cord, and only 10 in the supratentorial region.5 Isolated case reports also describe retrobulbar optic nerve hemangioblastomas along the intraorbital optic nerve, intracanalicular optic nerve, intracranial prechiasmal optic nerve, and optic chiasm. The chiasmal lesions can present with a bitemporal hemianopsia.15 These tumors have been reported to invade and destroy optic nerve tissue.8 Patients may present with vision loss, visual field (VF) defects, exophthalmos, optic nerve pallor, and diminished color vision. Intraoperatively, the tumors appear as a solid yellow, red, or reddish-brown mass. Characteristically, the tumor does not originate from the optic nerve dural sheath. Previously resected lesions have been found to lack a capsule and be unattached to the dura. At the NIH, over 300 patients with VHL are observed routinely at the National Eye Institute (NEI) and Surgical Neurology Branch in an effort to understand the natural history of this genetic disease. This collaboration has resulted in the identification of the following 9 cases of hemangioblastomas affecting the anterior visual pathway (prevalence rate, 3%).

The rise in popularity of proton therapy is continuing across the globe. It is estimated that more than patients suffering from a variety of cancers, such as prostate cancer, brain tumors, etc. have already been successfully treated using this method. As of August 2020, there are over 89 particle therapy facilities worldwide, with at least 41 others under construction. As of August 2020, there are 34 operational proton therapy centers in the United States. As of the end of 2015 more than 165,000 patients had been treated worldwide.

Proton Accelerators Protons injected into accelerators are produced by stripping hydrogen atoms of their electrons. These free protons are accelerated by electric fields to the desired energy.

Hence, only proton beam therapy can deal with my countless leptomeningeal hemangioblastomas.

One of the key components in cancer treatment is finding the best treatment option that can achieve the highest clinical results. Proton therapy reduces overall toxicity, improves quality of life during and after treatment and increases the long-term survival rates.

Proton therapy also may be used to treat these cancers:

• Central nervous system cancers, including chordoma, chondrosarcoma, and malignant meningioma

• Eye cancer, including uveal melanoma or choroidal melanoma

• Head and neck cancers, including nasal cavity and paranasal sinus cancer and some nasopharyngeal cancers

• Lung cancer

• Liver cancer

• Prostate cancer

• Spinal and pelvic sarcomas, which are cancers that occur in the soft-tissue and bone

• Noncancerous brain tumors

Proton vs Photon positivity vs negativity. Knowledge expands life and its quality.

“It's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too. There will be days where you feel all alone, and that's when hope is needed most. No matter how buried it gets, or how lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold on to hope. Keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffer.”