SEASON 2 Ep. 6: “Can an App Change the Way we Share Information on Brain Cancer?” With Guest Dr. John Ruge

            What does it take to beat brain cancer? Well, that’s a million dollar question isn’t it–for Dr. John Ruge, finding ways to get innovative information into the hands of doctors and families within minutes could be one such way.

John Ruge, MD is not only a neurosurgeon in pediatrics at Advocate Children’s Hospital near Chicago, he is the founder of the brain cancer information sharing app Medeligo! He also happens to be the founder of the Advocate Midwest Children’s Brain Tumor Center, and chairman for Department of Neurosurgery Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Il.

He is credited with developing several new neurosurgical techniques including A technique of image guided brainstem tumor removal, Neuroendoscopic fenestration of quadrageminal cysts, and the first use of 5-ALA tumor dye in the USA being the first ever to use the tumor dye to assist in the resection of brain tumors in children.

In this episode, Dr. Ruge talks about the challenges of treating brain cancer, what he sees as being pivotal in recent years that may be a game changer as to how we get new treatments in the hands of doctors and patients quicker, and his app that may help all of this.

You can also support clinical trials in brain cancer by donating to Traphagen’s Trail Ride 4 Brain Cancer (click on the image to go to donation page).

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