1 minute read

CARDIO VS. STRENGTH TRAINING

‘WE ARE

After treatment for glioblastoma, Paul Reese Jr. could resume activities like boating, working on home projects and spending time with his wife, Sue Ann (bottom right).

VERY FORTUNATE’

LASER ABLATION THERAPY TREATS A MAN’S BRAIN CANCER WITHOUT OPEN SURGERY.

In April 2022, Paul Reese Jr., a 65-year-old director of construction and property management for a real estate development company, had taken a week of vacation to begin working on a home project. His wife, Sue Ann, a nurse practitioner, noticed that he wasn’t himself that week—for example, his speech was intermittently slurred. Paul thought he was just tired from working on a flooring project.

On Friday of that week, the couple traveled to their shore house to get ready for the summer. As they were painting their front porch, Sue Ann noticed more speech difficulties. They drove to an emergency room close to their home in Sayreville, and within a few minutes, Paul underwent a CT scan of his head.

At first, Sue Ann thought Paul might be having a type of stroke. Then she recalled a patient she had recently cared for who’d had similar symptoms and been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her thoughts HAI SUN, MD became reality when the emergency department doctor informed them of the CT results: Paul had a mass with swelling of the brain and ultimately was diagnosed with a grade 4 glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. “Friday afternoon I was working on the house, and Friday night we discovered a brain tumor,” Paul says. “That’s how fast life changes.”

DISCUSSING OPTIONS

Paul was transferred to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and referred to Hai Sun, MD, PhD, Interim Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Neurosurgery at

This article is from: