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So low and frightened. Home from surgery . Stage 4 tumour waiting for chemo and radiotherapy. Just cannot deal with it emotionally
Hello everyone, my lovely mum was diagnosed with an inoperable glioblastoma in February after a biopsy. She had been experiencing what we thought were falls as we didn’t see them happening but now think they were seizures for a couple of months before...
Hallo I have had operation and radiotherapy due soon. As the prognosis is not good and I will not live beyond one year I find it all a shock and it’s such a recent discovery. I’d like to talk to others
Hi there, just wanted some advice really. My husband had bowel cancer 3 years ago to which he now has a stoma. After undergoing surgery for perinneal cancer we found the cancer had spread to the brain. My hubby had invasive radiotherapy treatment back...
After low grade slow growing brain tumour removal, as much taken away as possible, 3 weeks ago, we have now been told, yesterday, this has how progressed to the above. Further Treatment will now be chemo and radiotherapy, feeling very scared.
Some may remember that i posted saying that I had a right frontal lobe 14mm meningioma, enlarged ventricles (longstanding) and a tiny small cyst on the left of my brain. Well today we saw the neurosurgeon and he said that he will do another MRI scan...
I'm absolutely devastated as I found my brother colapsed in his living room. Unable to stand. He was told after MRI that there is nothing that can help him. He got discharged last tuesday from hospice and is back in his home. I'm staying with him and...
I’m living with incurable brain cancer (glioblastoma) and I’m doing well scans are showing it’s stable. However the past 6 months or so I’ve never felt so alone in my life I have had therapy through turning point but if I’m totally honest it didn’t really...
Hello all, I hope that you are having a good day relative to your circumstances. My name is Pete and I am 61 years old. I am very lucky to be married to my lovely wife Deb and we both have the privilege of being parents to the amazing and beautiful...
I’m due to change onto Lomustine as TMZ doesn’t seem to be controlling my Astrocytoma recurrence but all I’ve managed to find is horror stories where it’s been unsuccessful or has made things worse. Does anyone have any positive outcomes from using Lomustine...
