NEWS

National Brain Tumor Society Mentions

April 24, 2024:

“We are halfway through #NationalVolunteerWeek, and today, we are thrilled to honor Christine Emery with the 2024 Trailblazer Award.

Christine, along with her fellow neighbors and community members, launched the McGuiness Memorial Golf Tournament last year out of a need to create something positive from the tragedy of 29-year-old Nicholas McGuiness passing from a #braintumor, shortly followed by his father’s death due to prostate cancer. In her event’s first year, Christine helped raise more than $102,000 to support NBTS!

Christine shares, “Like many people, I have lost friends and family members to glioblastomas and other malignant brain tumors. As a neuroradiologist, I spent much of each day reading brain MRI and CT scans of patients undergoing treatment for known brain tumors.

On most days in our large institution, someone presenting with a headache, personality change, or neurological deficit would be found to harbor an unsuspected brain tumor. This diagnosis is life-altering for them and everyone who loves them. I know from [our] brain tumor board that despite available treatment, the prognosis of malignant brain tumors has not substantially improved. That needs to change.”

Congratulations to Christine and her small but mighty team of volunteers for their outstanding fundraising efforts in Nicholas’ memory! #NVW.”

October 7, 2024:

“Today, two groups are leaning into what🏌️drives🏌️them to raise funds and awareness for the brain tumor community through their annual golf tournaments.

For Ben, his brother, and his mother, it is their father and husband, Kip, who DRIVES them to fundraise towards a cure: “My father passed away 2 years ago from a glioblastoma shortly after retiring. He spent 38 years working at Salem Country Club as the Golf Course Superintendent. When thinking about ways to honor his memory, a golf tournament was the perfect solution to raise money and get everyone together to do something he loved.”

Christine Emery is a retired neuroradiologist who spent her career diagnosing and following brain tumors on CT and MRI. “I have lost family members, friends, and several years ago the young adult son of a close friend to malignant brain tumors. I decided that in retirement I would channel my energy into fundraising for a cure in his name…we live in a golf community, and our entire neighborhood and club rallied around our cause, [so] a golf tournament was the obvious fundraising vehicle.”

Sports have the unique ability to unite people, creating a sense of camaraderie, teamwork, and shared purpose in a community that few other activities can match. For the Tyler family and the Brain Cancer Answer community hosting their individual golf fundraisers today, golf is offering a unique way to rally family, friends, and the greater community in the drive toward a cure, and we thank them for their efforts to give patients a better chance

Find your inner DRIVE and reach out to our Fundraise Your Way team today to learn more and create your own golf fundraiser: https://braintumor.org/events/fundraise-your-way/”