Professor Richard Gilbertson, Director of the Cambridge Cancer Centre at Cambridge University, and Chair of our biomedical SAB, kicked off the evening with an introduction to the field.
He described some of the turning points in history that helped shape the way we currently diagnose and treat brain tumours, including the first surgical removal of a primary brain tumour. This landmark operation was performed by surgeon Mr Rickman J. Godlee in 1884 and is described as the advent of modern neurosurgery.
