num_pages: 67
description: 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. 
language: English
title: The Tumor
publisher: Focused Ultrasound Foundation