Asus Estimates on Everything

Brain tumor patients  are hit on the head, literally, with a three-phase double whammy of physical and psychological trauma.    First they discover that a motley and seemingly harmless crew of symptoms actually stems from a deadly and often incurable disease.  Second, they must consult their doctors and volumes of contradictory information in order to decide on a treatment that has no guarantee of success even in the best of cases, and is likely to have painful side effects.  Finally, after slogging through the treatment and suffering the medical fallout -- baldness, stomach cramps, perhaps empty bank accounts -- the patients become survivors.  They leave the operating room heavy hearted, with unavoidable uncertainty about a future that could bring a recurrence of the disease.