After a Brain Tumor Diagnosis Came Hope

Sabrina Lewandowski woke up one morning 23 years ago with a headache that should have killed her.

The cause was a stage four glioblastoma multiforme – a particularly insidious brain tumor that most people don’t survive. Many hospitals would have advised her to go home and get her affairs in order.

But instead of a death sentence, a care team at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke presented her with options.

And hope