{"id":163184,"date":"2020-08-05T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=163184"},"modified":"2020-08-04T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T22:33:27","slug":"brain-tumor-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/08\/brain-tumor-now\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have a Brain Tumor. Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neuro-oncology is a relatively new specialty, not just at UConn Health but in general.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154969\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154969 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/becker_kevin_20190930_krwallace_3605-4x5-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kevin Becker portrait\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/becker_kevin_20190930_krwallace_3605-4x5-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/becker_kevin_20190930_krwallace_3605-4x5-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/becker_kevin_20190930_krwallace_3605-4x5-336x420.jpg 336w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/becker_kevin_20190930_krwallace_3605-4x5.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kevin Becker sees neuro-oncology patients in the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, and general neurology patients in UConn Health\u2019s neurology practice in the Outpatient Pavilion.(Photo by Kristin Wallace)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a discipline where we treat patients with primary brain tumors, tumors of the spinal cord, complications from systemic chemotherapy, and metastatic disease,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=154926\">Dr. Kevin Becker, who arrived from Yale last year<\/a> to establish a neuro-oncology program at UConn Health. \u201cWe actually see ourselves as sort of quarterbacks for patients with brain tumors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becker joined the UConn Health Pulse podcast to elaborate on his role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the most important thing about my job is, it\u2019s not a singular person that takes care of these patients,\u201d Becker says. \u201cThe fundamental need is to have a group, a division of people that work together hand in hand, to treat these patients. That&#8217;s absolutely critical. And that includes everything from the neurosurgeons, the radiation oncologist, the neuropathologist, but also mid-level providers are important: nurses, palliative care, and even sometimes psychiatry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Hear the entire conversation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/?p=4513\">August episode of the UConn Health Pulse podcast<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those found to have a brain or spinal tumor can benefit from a neuro-oncologist directing their care. Dr. Kevin Becker, who joined UConn Health to build its neuro-oncology program, joins the UConn Health Pulse podcast to explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-163184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163184"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=163184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=163184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}