Forum: Brain Tumors Forum

Hi I started radiation around 28 days ago and only 2 more days to go I am on steriods as well. However my brother told me that I have changed alot as...

I feel fortunate to have found this forum, I need support right now. My Mom is 84 years old and having a second MRI today (FIRST ONE A FEW DAYS AGO)...

My wife is now on the standard 5 days a month temozolomide course, having completed chemo/radio course five weeks ago. Apart from that, no other...

Hi, I am new to this, so please bare with me. My husband (52 now)was diagnosed with stage 4 GBM almost 4 years ago. We had the standard...

I am a 35 yr. old female that was just diagnosed with a brain tumor last week. It is 4 cm and on the back of my right side of brain. The dr said I...

Hello all, I have been a regular visitor of this site for over a year, but haven't posted before. In January 2011, my 53-year old mother was...

I am new to this forum and read many posts and thought to ask for some advice. A few years ago my vision started to go a bit off, not tunnel style...

Hi, all. I'm the husband of a 39-year-old mother of three diagnosed with a 6 cm grade II astrocytoma in her right thalamus on November 12, 2010. ...

The oncologist who said I had regrowth on Monday. Teamed with 5 other oncologist who all spent all week making sure. When I went to get my Avastin...

Exactly a year ago I made my first post on this forum : http://www.cancerforums.net/threads/17074-Where-do-I-begin At that time (my idiot) NS...

Hi, im Mike, I was recently a member but i left as i thought that i was not ready for all that i was reading until now. Two weeks ago i had a...

Hi, My husband Dave was dx with a GMBIV in Nov 2011. He is 40. It is in-operable. His tumor is towards the back of the Corpus Callosum and it has...

Hello, My beautiful dad has just been diagnosed with GBM after a seizure a couple of weeks ago, followed by complete tumour ressection on the right...

Hello to everyone on this forum. I am a neuro-oncologist, and I have started a new website called docsbydocs.com. I am the director of a...

Does your hair continue to fall out a month after finishing chemo/radiation? My friend only lost a little hair on the sides during her treatment. ...

WELL after a great MRI in March which showed shrinkage of the tumor. Fridays MRI showed regrowth in one area of the tumor. Avastin is still...

My friend has a GBM Stage 4 (inoperable, cancerous). She has gone through the chemo/radiation and was supposed to start her first chemo 5/28...

My elder brother who is in his 30's is diagnosised with brain tumor a year ago. He has made two surgeries and multiple chemo and radiations. His...

Hi all, First let me say thanks for taking the time to read my posts and any information you can send my way is greatly appreciated. I have not...

Has anyone on this forum ever experienced a spontaneous remission of their tumor(s)? Has anyone here had a recurrence of their tumor after...

Please let me first start off by saying that I am sorry for butting in in your forum- but I just needed so advice from people who are actually going...

Folks, I am not putting this here to scare or worry anyone. I am putting this here for educational purposes. My wife has been on avastin for nearly 3...

My wife (64, but fit for her age) had a sudden left brain haemorrhage at the end of last year. She needed emergency brain surgery to drain the bleed,...

My 3 year-old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant supratentorial PNET 4 weeks ago. There are apprently up to 40 of these diagnosed annually in...

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My Darling Wife of 32 yrs was diagnosed with Glioblastoma at the beginning of March after displaying hardly any of the symptons, She had a seizure on...

I just got back from my 1 year post-Op MRI after having a "golfball" sized grade II Oligo resected last April. I had great scan that looked clean!...

Good Afternoon Everyone! First of all I hope everyone is having a good day. Just a little bit of brief history before I get to my question....

after 8 months of taking Dex for brain swelling I finally weened off of it two weeks ago. the last month I was on it was just a 1/2 mg a day. This...

Hi all, Well, it happened today, a week after my MRI I had the dreaded phonecall. Unfortunately though it wasn't from the doctor with my MRI...

I am new to this. How to you know if you are getting better?

My 23 year old son has been developing lumps in his breasts. He had the first removed and biopsied and they found it not to be cancerous. He then...

Hi everyone, as some of you may remember, my husband Duke, age 60 has GBM. He was diagnosed in August 2011. In his case he never had a chance...

Hi All Quick update..From Monday 09-Apr-2012, I started 28 days of 3D CRT and after that Doctors will start Chemo Therapy. I was pretty scared as...

Does anyone know anything about the meninges of the brain? My mom went for her MRI and I cant find the report but her meninges is thinning. Its...

Hi everyone, Firstly, I'm sorry if my worrying is offensive to anyone, I'm just really anxious. For the past 4 weeks, I've had a mild on/off...

Hi I was having headaches since november 2011, they were mild but they were not going away. On december 25, 2011 i went to hospital er where they...

My healthy 49 year old best friend of 35 years fell over and then had a seizure a few days after Christmas 2011 and her husband took her to the ER. ...

My 66yr old dad has been putting up a good fight since his dx on 1/1/11. The GBM in his left temporal lobe was removed with a sizable chunk of the...

Sorry to sound so negative with the title. My wife and I have been fighting a brain tumor since 2003, yup that's 9 years. She had a Oglioastrocytoma...

Hi, Can mobile phones bring about brain cancer..? If someone have any kind of suggestion with regards to it then please respond me...Thanks...

Hi Well finally got to speak to my GP who kindly accessed my MRI report which basically said that minor changes were present on the MRI and a...

My daughter had a CT scan and they found 'something' in the suprasellar region and are thus going to do an MRI. The 'something' is 1cm. The...

Hi - I just joined this forum. i was diagnosed with an aggressive Astrocytoma at T-10 in 1950, when I was 4. Really massive X-ray radiation after...

My brother was diagnosed in Dec 11 with AA Grade 3 Brain Tumor. They were able to remove only about 40% of the tumor. He did radiation/chemo pill for...

This story was posted on Yahoo just a couple of hours ago. I don't know if this has been discussed here before. ...

Hello everyone, I hope someone here can help me understand more about brain cancers. My dear dear husband was diagnosed with GBM 4 in the right...

Though the MRI Thursday was good news Friday my GF was feeling pretty ill coughing and a backache. Since she has an old injury to her back I...

Hello All! My husband, Bob (66 years old), was diagnosed in September with GBMIV. Had surgery to remove the tumor from his left temporal lobe....

Hi Had my MRI yesterday and sort of dreading the phone will ring with bad news...I'm guessing that if all is clear then you tend to wait longer...