Jessica Morris obituary
by Gaby Wood from Science | The Guardian on (#5KQK5)
Campaigner for better treatments for people with brain cancer
The communications consultant Jessica Morris did much to give a voice to people who lacked one. In the years up to her death at the age of 57 from brain cancer, she made her illness the basis of a campaign to find treatments for others.
In January 2016 she was hiking in a valley north of New York when she found herself trying to speak: Sounds came out of my mouth, but they weren't words," she said later. That seizure led to a diagnosis of glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of brain cancer, for which the median survival rate is 14 months. Only 5% of patients survive for five years.
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