How can our ability to locate and surgically remove brain tumors be refined?
A team of world-class neurosurgeons, scientists and radiologists at one of Boston’s most prestigious medical centers is committed, day-in and day-out, to pursuing the illusive answers to these difficult questions. Their insights and research findings in the laboratory must continue to be applied in monitored clinical trials at the bedside of thousands of children and adults, bringing us one step closer to a cure. A Century of Progress Neurosurgery is the subspecialty of surgery in which operative procedures are focused on diseases and malfunctions of the human brain and nervous system. The development of neurosurgery as a surgical subspecialty had its genesis in Boston, Massachusetts at the turn of the twentieth century thanks to one man, Dr. Harvey Cushing, a widely acclaimed scientist, clinician, and teacher. Trained as a surgeon, Dr. Cushing’s innovative surgical procedures on the brain yielded remarkable advances over the course of his thirty-year tenure as a physician at the forme
