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Recently dx w/ anaplastic astrocytoma - was your treatment successful?
Brain Tumor | Last Active: Nov 29, 2016 | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
Hi there. My husband has a Grade 3 AA, left temporal lobe, the tumor was 8cm large. He's had two surgeries, one partial resection at first the second more aggressive. He completed 6 wks temodar/radiation then did 10 months temodar as a follow up. We're in Baltimore so we go to Johns Hopkins. His first surgery was June 2011, the second was January 2014. His MRI's are still clear at 2+ years, and we go every three months. You look young so I wanted to write back to you... it's a scary process. My husband was 42 when he was diagnosed.
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The brain is likely the most complicated organ for all of our bodies<br>operations. You know it from what you've witnessed, as do I from when I<br>had 'pressure on the brain' due to forceptual delivery at birth. If a<br>mistake is made during surgery, it's seldom able to be corrected. Although<br>my neurosurgeon team of Jones, Naffzeiger and Brown in 1946 after 3 hours<br>of operation, came to my mother and father and said; "if the slightest<br>mistake is made with any of our tools, he can be parilized for life, lose<br>his speech, hearing, vision and other abilities--what do you want us to<br>do?" My parents answered "close him up." The third surgeon did the dirty<br>work of doing that. However, in the process, he severed a vein (which I<br>believe was a gift from GOD. That called the other surgeons in to repair<br>it--but after that "my seizures were able to be controlled with anti<br>seizure medications as hard as it was at times. I'd seek a second or even<br>third opinion on something like this, from the most reknowned doctors<br>available.<br><br>irvkay312<br>