The Brain Tumor Center's work with radioactive seeds is featured in the article, "Top 17 Medical Breakthroughs," in the December 2009-January 2010 issue of Cincy Magazine.
"Joe was immersed in writing poems and his memoir when, during a summer trip in central Kentucky with an old friend, he suffered a seizure. He was taken by ambulance to the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, where he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He underwent surgery and awaited the results of his biopsy.
"I thought a lot about death," Joe recalled. Read More »