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John Grisham says THE TUMOR is the most important book he has ever written. In this short book, he provides readers with a fictional account of how a real, new medical technology could revolutionize the future of medicine by curing with sound.

THE TUMOR follows the present day experience of the fictional patient Paul, an otherwise healthy 35-year-old father who is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Grisham takes readers through a detailed account of Pauls treatment and his familys experience that doesnt end as we would hope. Grisham then explores an alternate future, where Paul is diagnosed with the same brain tumor at the same age, but in the year 2025, when a treatment called focused ultrasound is able to extend his life expectancy.

Focused ultrasound has the potential to treat not just brain tumors, but many other disorders, including Parkinsons, Alzheimers, hypertension, and prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer.

For more information, you can visit The Focused Ultrasound Foundations website. Here you will find a video of Grisham on the TEDx stage with the Foundations chairman and a Parkinsons patient who brings the audience to its feet sharing her incredible story of a focused ultrasound miracle.

Readers will get a taste of the narrative they expect from Grisham, but this short book will also educate and inspire people to be hopeful about the future of medical innovation.

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John Grishams readers have always been captured by his eloquent exposition of injustice. In this short story The Tumor, he has stepped outside of the courtroom and legal system and into the arena of medicine and health care and in doing so has perhaps found his most passionate voice. There is no greater injustice than a cruel invader called cancer who steals from the innocent their most precious position of life. As in all his writings, Mr. Grisham in portraying this injustice evokes within us a calling to demand its remedy. As in the court room, this battle for justice has begun.
- Andrew von Eschenbach, MD, Former Commissioner of the FDA and Former Director of the National Cancer Institute

Grisham has gone rogue, turning his formidable writing skills into an outreach to us all in an effort to shed light on a new, disruptive medical technology that has the potential to save lives. Seldom does a writer at the top of his game step away from his career to speak out on a revolutionary medical therapy. He says this is the most important book he has ever written. I believe him. This book is an amazing read!
- Antonio Mendez, Retired CIA officer, author of ARGO

What incredible potential to improve outcomes and quality of life for patients while decreasing the cost of care. Ive seen the power of this technology firsthand with doctors at the University of Virginia. Just as that experience brought home the reality of the technology for me, John Grishams The Tumor gives readers a better picture for what the future of medicine can look like with focused ultrasound.
- U.S. Senator Mark Warner

Grishams book is changing the game. He has pulled an exciting new medical technology out of the labs of academic research and onto the pages of an enlightening book. He paints a great picture of how sound waves may shape the future of medicine.
- Ed Miller, MD, former CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

John emotionally captures the tremendous opportunity for Focused Ultrasound to provide a new revolutionary disruptive therapy that will improve, extend and save lives.
- Steve Rusckowski, President & CEO, Quest Diagnostics Inc.

John Grisham utilizes his great storytelling talents to bring to life the science that may change the treatment of some of the most dreaded cancers. Grishams view into one innovative therapy will give hope to millions about treatments that dont poison and destroy, arriving long before the yet-to-be-discovered individualized medicine. The book combines fact and future in an enlightening and informative way.
- Howard Stevenson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

The book is a terrific hybrid of novel and technology review. It provides a dramatic sense of the difference between what is available now and the possibility of the future. So many of us know people that could be the protagonist, that exploring the experience from the patient point of view is very compelling.
- Gordy Slack, neuroscience journalist and author

Sooner or later many are likely to benefit from this game changing technology. Now the task at hand is to cause its development to occur as rapidly as possible. By increasing awareness, The Tumor can help make focused ultrasound available sooner to countless patients worldwide with a host of medical conditions.
- Rick Goings, CEO, Tupperware Brands

Focused ultrasound therapy is far from fictional: Its real and rapidly gaining fame. But to see John Grisham move in this book from the legal world into medicine is to realize that the focused ultrasound story needs to be shared and there is no better way than through one of our best storytellers.
- Carol Loomis, Retired Fortune Magazine editor and writer

A radical and potentially revolutionary view of the future of brain cancer treatment and cure. Using non-invasive focused ultrasound in the treatment of brain tumors with minimal side effects or down time seems like science fiction. In the book The Tumor, John Grisham describes this highly innovative clinical process, which consists of applying sound waves at a frequency past the hearing capability of a human ear. The technology is no longer science fiction and may one day rewrite the outcome for cancers of the brain, breast, liver, prostate, and pancreas as well as many other serious diseases.
- Richard Merkin, MD, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network

John Grisham is amazing. For 25 years, he has entertained and educated us with his legal thrillers. Now, he is opening our minds to one of the most exciting medical treatments of our time. The Tumor is a quick but truly fascinating read.
- Bill Crutchfield, Founder & CEO, Crutchfield Corporation

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Focused Ultrasound Foundation

1230 Cedars Court, Suite 206

Charlottesville VA 22903

fusfoundation.org

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2015 John Grisham

Medical Illustrations:

2015 Anatomical Justice, LLC ;

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All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Convention.

ISBN 978-1-4951-7941-9

Dear Reader My knowledge of medicine and medical research is quite limited - photo 1

Dear Reader

My knowledge of medicine and medical research is quite limited When I was a - photo 2

My knowledge of medicine and medical research is quite limited. When I was a student, I drifted away from science and math, preferring instead subjects I considered less demanding. I eventually made it to law school and became a lawyer. After a brief career suing people (never a doctor, though), I stumbled upon fiction and wrote a couple of books. Others followed, and I happily shuttered the law office. Because the books have done well, I have been lucky enough to dabble in philanthropy. Once you get the reputation of being generous, a lot of opportunities present themselves.

Seven years ago, my friend and neighbor, Neal Kassell, gave a PowerPoint presentation on focused ultrasound therapy. Neal is a prominent neurosurgeon whos spent his career drilling through skulls and making repairs to brains. During the PowerPoint, Neal, with great enthusiasm, explained that focused ultrasound therapy could one day alleviate the need for conventional brain surgery. Tumors would be destroyed using beams of ultrasound energy, and afterward the patient would walk out of the operating room and go home. Not only would the treatment be non-invasive, painless, quick, and relatively inexpensive, it could also save the patients life.

Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.

The brain is just the starting point. Tumors in the breast, prostate, pancreas, liver, kidneys, and bones could be treated on an out-patient basis. Neal loves to use the example of a man with prostate cancer undergoing focused ultrasound therapy, then driving himself back to the office for a few hours. Later, he goes home to celebrate his wedding anniversary with his wife. They share a champagne toast to growing old together.

This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 22,000 women with uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas and liver, as well as Parkinsons disease, arthritis, and hypertension are inching forward at over 225 research sites around the world.

Though focused ultrasound technology is in its infancy, there is great enthusiasm for its potential to improve the quality of life and decrease the cost of care. This potential, though, remains to be fully demonstrated through additional laboratory research and clinical trials.

But progress is too slow. There are barriers from regulators, insurance companies, even many in the medical field.

I have found no other cause, issue, non-profit, or charity that can potentially save so many lives. One day in the not-too-distant future, you or someone you love will be diagnosed with a tumor. After the shock, you will think of focused ultrasound.

Lets hope its available.

Chapter 1

The Patient

Meet Paul, a 35-year-old banker with a lovely wife, Karen, and three small children. They enjoy a nice life in the suburbs with lots of friends and the usual activitiesbackyard cookouts, swim parties, tee-ball, church on Sundays. They are active and enjoy great health. Pauls parents are in their 60s and also very healthy. Paul gets a complete physical once a year, jogs twenty miles a week, plays golf and tennis at a nearby club, and avoids extra pounds. He has an occasional beer, doesnt smoke, and takes no medication.

Chapter 2 The Tumor But Paul has a problem He has a tumor in the right - photo 3

Chapter 2 The Tumor But Paul has a problem He has a tumor in the right - photo 4

Chapter 2

The Tumor

But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hens egg.

Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate. At times he felt listless and tired. Then the headaches arrived, and with a fury. He blamed them on stress and took lots of ibuprofen. As he drove to work one morning, his vision became so blurred he stopped the car. Karen began to notice mood swings and a loss of patience with the kids. He grew more irritable, both at home and at the office. His boss chastised him for barking at a coworker. He quarreled with Karen over his dour moods and crankiness. She knew something was changing with her husband and urged him to see a doctor. He refused.

On a Wednesday morning, as Paul is in the bathroom shaving, Karen hears a loud thump. She finds him on the floor, shaking in a full-blown grand mal seizure. She calls 911, and as she waits the seizure stops and he gradually awakens. He is confused, disorienteddoesnt recognize Karen and doesnt know where he is. The rescue squad arrives. Paul is loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital. In the emergency room, he is still drowsy and confused and complains of weakness on his left side. Upon examination, his left hand is very weak and he has difficulty lifting his left arm and leg. An MR scan reveals the tumor.

He is admitted to the hospital and started on anticonvulsant medication to prevent further seizures, as well as steroids to decrease the swelling in his brain around the tumor. Paul and Karen are not shown the MR scan. A neurosurgeon is consulted.

By Thursday morning, the confusion and disorientation are gone, as is the weakness in his left side. He feels much better, briefly, but things will change. When the neurosurgeon arrives early that morning for the initial consultation, he produces the MR scan (opposite). As they stare at it, Paul and Karen are too stunned to speak. The doctor explains that Paul indeed has a tumor in his brain and it appears to be the type known as a glioma. Surgery is needed to remove as much of it as possible and to obtain tissue to determine the type of tumor.

They talk about the operation. The doctor covers the risks. For complications like death and paralysis, the risks are very small. The most likely complication will be a weakness on the left side. The surgery will take about three hours, and if all goes well, Paul can expect to go home in three days.

MR scan of Pauls tumor The neurosurgeon explains that gliomas are graded one - photo 5

MR scan of Pauls tumor The neurosurgeon explains that gliomas are graded one - photo 6

MR scan of Pauls tumor

The neurosurgeon explains that gliomas are graded one through four, with one and two being benign. Three and four are malignant. Grade four, the most catastrophic, is called a glioblastoma. The life expectancy for a grade four diagnosis is short. Regardless of treatmentsurgery, chemo, radiationthe average length of survival is about one year. Left untreated but managed with pain medication only, the patient can expect to live several months. About 22,000 Americans are diagnosed each year with glioblastomas; 15,000 die within 12 months. The lucky ones, about one in ten, live for five years.

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