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The MIT article is heartening, but Steven's speech about his experience is even better. If you have 12 minutes to watch it -- it's worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-WFukOARU

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The talk was both profoundly touching, informative and surprisingly cheerfully optimistic. He really did convince me that MIT and Harvard are some of the best places to be at if you have cancer in terms of resources.

A highlight from that talk was the state of the art robotic surgery facility at Brigham and Women's neurosurgery dept.

http://www.brighamandwomens.org/departments_and_services/neu...

He got operated on by one of the best neurosurgeons specializing in glioma (his condition):

http://physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org/Details/886

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