The author is a librarian who is determined to find a special treatment to save the life of her cancer-stricken friend by monitoring various web resources that keep her up-to-date of the latest treatments for brain cancer. Even though she has no medical background, the author is trying to comprehend the most recent developments in genetics by using backgrounders, which are articles that explain to the layperson the ideas behind todays medical miracles. Such backgrounders are often found in unexpected resources such as business magazines, such as The Economist, Scientific American, and eMedicine from WebMD. Various providers offer news of cancer research interpreted for the nonspecialist, most of which have RSS feeds that enable daily browsing. These cancer news websites include the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the cancer section in Scientific American, the EurekAlert! cancer section on The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ScienceDailys Brain Tumor News, and WebMDs Medscape Hematology-Oncology section. Detailed, unfiltered, in-depth biomedical research can be obtained via hardcore journals on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed (where you can do a My NCBI search and have results emailed to you at regular intervals) and Bernd Sebastian Kamps website AMEDEO Neoplasms of the CNS. Websites that deal with clinical trials include ClinicalTrials.gov, CenterWatch Clinical Trials: Oncology, and Brain Tumor Treatment Database. When dealing with the devastation of brain cancer, it sometimes helps to get guidance from other patients and caregivers