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Brain Cancer
Archives for September 2017
Discussion List
Recently diagnosed and in need of helpful info
Hi. Out of the blue last week, my normally healthy 31 year old wife had a seizure at work and was rushed to the ER. After a few MRIs and CAT scans, it was determined that she has a 3cm mass in her left frontal lobe. Needless to say, with 2 small children (3 year old & 8 months) we were completely caught off guard. So far,…
Optune for Glioma Tumor
Hi. My name is Connie and my father in law was recently diagnosed with a glioma tumor. He has had surgery and been through radiation. He is continuing to have chemo via pills. He was given an option of using this Optune head thing and they are hoping for more "real people" experiences with them and I just can't find much.…
Anaplastic Astrocytoma Grade 3 - Trying to Understand
Please help me to understand. My girlfriend has been diagnosed with AA3 - again. She's 22: In December 2016 she had her brain tumor surgically removed. She did not undergo chemotherapy nor radiation because she was told at the time that the chemotherapy would not help the specific cancer that she had, and was not…
Mom with glioblastoma stage4
My mom was diagnosed in March 2016. She had the surgery, followed by radiation and chemo. Then was on chemo for 1 year, one week on...4 weeks off...etc. Her last chemo treatment was in June 2017. She did great that whole 18 months! With 3 months of nothing she had her follow up MRI early September 2017 and it showed…
Looked like MS, but now more like tumors
My vision is terribl... waiting on lumbar puncture results which yielded initial high spinal fluid and lots of white blood cells.... they are sure I don't have an infection. several rounds of IV steroids have helped with the swelling in my brain, but the demyelination is still there. Of of course I don't have a diagnosis…
A Care Givers Dilemma...
I am representing my wife on this forum and as a novice to forums, I apologize and hope I do this correctly. This is her story... with a question enclosed. After a hysterectomy, my wife was told that some of the histology showed evidence of endometrial cancer. It had not reached the lymph nodes, but had reached the…
Astrocytoma support
My 19 year old daughter just had surgery Wednesday to remove a tumor on her left lobe close to her motor strip. We found out yesterday that is a astrocytoma grade 3. The Doctor is 95% confident he got all the tumor but we will be starting chemo and radiation in 2-4 weeks after her head heals. I'm in shock, I've cried,…
Glioblastoma IV
My dad (76) was diagnosed February 2017 with inoperable GBM stage IV. He completed 6 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy and although weak and fatigued, tolerated it well. He was on Temzolomide as maintainace and had a COPD exacerbation that hospitalized him. Before this he was ambulatory but slept most od the day. He came…