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Brain Cancer

Archives for November 2010

Astrocytoma grade 4 loving mother
Hello everybody, I'm new to this but I wanted to share my story, my mother, who is 45 years old, was recently diagnosed with astrocytoma grade 4, she went through surgery about a month ago and they took out 90% of the tumor. She is now going through radiation therapy 5 days a week and the chemotherapy pill. She's had no…
brain metastases survivors
Hello all, I'm new to this board today and I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section. After several months of headaches which have got progressivley worse my close friend had a scan this week to be given the devastating news she has a tumor on her brain. On Wednesday an MRI confirmed she also had a tumor on her lung.…
adult medulloblastoma recurrence
he went to the docs about 3 days ago and they are pretty sure that his cancer has came back he was dignosed with the cancer when he was 27 and now its back at age 29 i was wondering has anyone older had a recurrence and are you ok now the docs have gave him little hope about making it through this one
Brain Stem Glioma on the 3rd Ventricle in adult male
My uncle has recently been diagnosed with a brain stem glioma on the 3rd ventricle. He is 55 years old and has had 2 other tumors that have been operated on. He also has a shunt from the very first surgery he ever had as a child. The doctors said today that the brain stem glioma is inoperable and he cannot even receive…
Non-surgical GBM grade 4
My 64 year old mom was diagnosed on 9-25-2010 with 2 Glio’s. She is just starting a clinical trial with Duke. The clinical trial is to see the effects of Avastin, in combination with CPT-11 and Temodar, prior to radiation. I don’t see too much discussion about non-surgical tumors. . which worries me. Duke has received a…
The battle is over
Hi everyone. It has been a long time since I have been on this board as I have been spending most of my time on a different site. I also didn't really know where to add this update so I decided to post a new discussion. Finally, I know people come here looking for survival stories, but I felt obligated to let some of you…
Pre-Surgery Nerves
Getting ready for another surgery -- you would think I would be a pro as we approach another surgery. However, as like in the beginning of this journey, I am now trying to "pack" our "full" life together in a day/week/month. I am thankful we have gotten through 5 surgeries already since March. Thankful he beat the first…
Acrylic bone flap
My husband is due to have an acrylic bone flap put in to replace his infected bone flap after two craniotomies and a surgery to "clean out" the infection and finally bone flap removal. Has anyone had an acrylic bone flap put in? Complications? Thanks!
New and looking for advice
Hi everyone. I'm not really sure where to post this. So, I'm posting it here. I am a caregiver to my husband who is 24. He was diagnosed August 2008 with a brain tumor. We have been told that he has a low grade brain stem glioma. It's not very common for his age. We were told by an oncologist last month that this tumor…
brain tumors
just want to say thank you for the support you gave me unfortunely my husband passed after eightt months. we tried just about all. all i can say is spend every moment you can trying t o make your loved one happy as possible. keep praying to god to help you he will answer. thank you once again for alll your help and prayers.
Brain Cancer Survivor T-shirt
Hey everyone! I just wanted to share my t-shirt for today... I have been wearing a different t-shirt everyday this year, and at the end of the year I am going to sell them and donate the money to Worcester's Hope Lodge - a house (run by the ACS ) I am Night Manager at that provides free rooms to cancer patients to stay in…
High white blood cell count during chemo?
Hi fellow brain people, I'm curious to know if anyone has ever experienced an increase in their WBC count while taking chemo, and what they went through. I'm currently taking Temodar for my Grade II Oligodendroglioma (with co-deletion) and my bloodwork at the end of Round 4 showed a high WBC count that my nurse said is…

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