Hello I'm am new to this group. My mum has asdly been diagnosed with breast ,lung, and brain cancer..and it's also in her limploads ,they feel she will not benefit from any treatment. Iv asked but noone has given me a time scale but I'm guessing it won...
Hi I’ve just signed up to this brilliant forum & very interested in peoples views on this illness in its unfortunate many forms. I haven’t been effected myself,thankfully, but I’ve recently lost my mam in April to an aggressive brain tumour & to be totally...
Hello, My 19 yo nephew was recently diagnosed with a right brain tumor and underwent a Stereotactic Volumetric excision on May 16th. The pathology was confirmed by two pathologists : Astrocytoma, Grade 2-3, IDH1 Mutant Positive, and KI-67 5-10,000....
Hi Folks. I have recently been diagnosed with terminal brain tumours I was already stage 4 lung cancer so on borrowed time already. Obviously declined stereotactic treatment and I decided against whole brain radiotherapy due to the risk are greater...
Hi, Two weeks ago my mum's partner was rushed into hospital with a suspected stroke. Unfortunately we now know it is a tumour at the back of the brain on the left hand side. The consultant yesterday advised no treatment can be given and he has been...
Hello, I’m very new to the forum and I am looking for some advice for my mum please. She has recently been diagnosed with a glioma, we don’t know what type or what grade. All I know is that it is in the frontal lobe. She’s been unwell with headaches...
Hi everyone I hope you don’t mind me joining in i am mid 40s with a wife and 4 children. I’m new here, I was recently diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma. It started out about 8 weeks ago I was sent to accident and emergency department because...
Hi everyone, about 2 weeks ago we had the devastating news that my dad in his early 50’s has a large inoperable tumour in his brain stem. He presented no symptoms at all until his vision doubled and had a slight pins and needles feeling. This also means...
My dad has just recently been diagnosed with a grade 4 brain tumour , he has just started radiotherapy and today started his chemotherapy drug too, as you can imagine it has been quite a shock for us all and we are still trying to get our heads around...
Hello all! My dad {64} has been diagnosed with stage 4 gliamastoma. We, as a very close family are shocked and devastated. I dragged him to a and e 11 days ago as his words were jumbked and saying wrong words etc. I thought he'd had mini strokes but...
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