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Hi I am new to the group. My mum, 64years has been diagnosed with an incurable glistoblastoma. We were hoping and hoping it wouldn't be this but these are the cards we have been handed. Treatment starts in a few weeks and she is staying brave. The prognosis...
Hi I was wondering if anyone else out here can relate? Menigoma grade 3. Surgery done. A small percentage left behind so there is radiotherapy on the agenda. But after much thought (partner) will be monitored. Anyone else going through similar...
Hi everyone, I'm new here and currently trying to come to terms with, and understand, recent events. Back in August following what we assumed was going to be a routine MRI scan, my husband was diagnosed with an 'incidental' left occipital meningioma...
I was admitted for an emergency removal of a Meningioma tumour from my brain lining in April 2025, which was successful. Unfortunately, when checked, the tumour turned out to be cancerous, graded at number 3 and so I was admitted for a 6 week (5 days...
Hi everyone, I feel a bit of a fraud posting on a cancer forum, but these forums seem to be the only place to talk to others in my position. I was initially diagnosed with a suspected pituitary adenoma due to high prolactin levels and was referred to...
Hello, I'm 33, had two seizures out and about leading to CTs and MRIs of a mass Sept 2023. Surgery the following week with biopsy results showing incurable grade 2 oligodendroglioma idh mutant and co deleted. Post op I lost all motor function left side...
Hi, I'm new here. Sorry to send such an awful first message but my Dad has High Grade Glioma brain cancer and when we saw the MRI scan it seemed to be everywhere. My Dad was very confused and numb down his right hand side plus very slurry in speech and...
Hello everyone, My partner (36/M) had surgery on Jan 2025 to resect what was later confirmed to be a grade 3 astrocytoma in the right mesial temporal lobe. The tumour was found incidentally and he had no seizures prior to the surgery. He was started...
Good evening My partner was diagnosed last year with a brain tumour. Since then we have had two goes at radiotherapy. He is on various medications and has been taking steroids for over a year. Mobility has become a worsening issue, his legs are so very...
Diagnosed with meningioma and visited neurosurgeon 2 weeks ago to be told only option is full on surgery, I have no other information right now and feel like I’m treading water in a sea of uncertainty. Best guess is after Christmas, but I am so bloody...
