neurosurgery

Aside from occasional high-profile cases and Hollywood movies, brain tumors rarely take center stage. But when they do, it tends to be an ominous story. The CDC recently reported brain cancer surpassed leukemia as the most common cancer-causing death in children aged 1-19, but no age is safe. Here's the first of a two-part series elucidating fact from fiction. 
Staying awake during brain surgery? Surgeons in France investigated whether using hypnotherapy could be successfully performed in patients undergoing removal of brain tumor.