Best Life: Postage stamp-sized treatment for brain tumors [Video]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – More than 200,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor each year.

These tumors tend to resist current treatments and don’t react well to chemo and radiation.

They also have a high rate of recurrence. Now, small seeds are giving patients new hope.

It’s the size of a postage stamp and is helping to destroy indestructible brain tumors, like the ones Anthony Parise battled for years.

“It moved from my lung to my brain,” said Anthony.

First diagnosed with lung cancer, an MRI revealed it spread.

“The most common type of brain tumor that is cancerous actually doesn’t arise from the brain tissue itself. It actually arises from other sites of the body, such as a lung cancer or co colon cancer or melanoma,” said Matthew Shepard, MD, neurosurgeon at Allegheny Health Network.

Anthony underwent two brain surgeries to remove the …