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Hi. My first post on here. My dad was diagnosed with a grade 4 fast growing glioma in May. He had brain surgery at the beginning of June and had Chemo (tablets) and radiotherapy. He seemed to sail through that but then it’s all gone rapidly downhill....
Hello, everyone. I am 79 and have been diagnosed with a high grade glioma tumour, for which I am to undertake six radiotherapy sessions next month. The news has made me feel low and tired most of the time, but I wonder how much of this might be due to...
My dad was put on Keppra just under 4 weeks ago. The last 2 weeks he has been in and out of hospital with infections, sleeping 23 hours in a day, hallucinations and complete confusion. he was doing so well before this, and seems too much of a coincidence...
This patient underwent awake craniotomy and radical debulking of a right frontal grade 3 anaplastic oligodendroglioma I have been asked to provide a letter to confirm that unfortunately this patient has a multiple-focal...
Where do I start? Do I really need a support group? Is this really happening or am I in a nightmare. It was my husbands 50th birthday and I treated him to a once in a lifetime meal at Ynyshir. We had an amazing few days in north Wales. On our travels...
Hi all I am writing this as my partner has brain tumour grade 4. She is too afraid to write on this forum herself. She has had surgery some 11 weeks ago and is now on radiotherapy and chemotherapy. I am looking after her the best I can but don't know...
Hi any one out there with similar diagnosis struggling at the moment to understand it
Hi I am new to this forum. I have had 3x brain ops to remove 2x distinct Sarcoma variants. I had 2x ops in the USA and they declared me free of Big C and just required that I had an MRI every 6 months to confirm nothing has come back. Six months later...
Hi all, I'm trying to seek some advice on my husband, he was diagnosed with terminal grade 4 glioma in feb, since then it has shrunk and had it regarded to grade 1/2. He has epilepsy now and left side weakness, short term memory loss. He is now getting...
My Dad was diagnosed with multiple brain tumours last Thursday since then they have found a shadow on his lung and a shadow in his stomach they are saying they are all secondary tumour but are unsure where the main stem is he as a pet scan this week then...
