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Radiation for 70 yr old (glioblastomas grade 4)?

Brain Tumor | Last Active: Feb 17 9:19pm | Replies (41)
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@sitarskidel

Best of luck to you👍

I’m not a medical person. My family member has this, and the docs are blunt as they don’t want to give false hope and are always wrong anyway. Some people live 16, 28, 22 months. Everyone IS SO different - the prognosis is an estimate based on past experiences of others. He sounds like a very healthy guy - activity and no other major concerns like diabetes are much in his favor. I say shoot for the stars. Send you warm and healing thoughts 💪🏼

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thomhorowitz | @thomhorowitz | Feb 17 9:19pm

The three key components are full resection, right chemo (methylation or not) and general immune system. The future of care will be tumor vaccines. Good work coming out of Israel (Dr. Charles Wiseman). The optune unit seems to delay recurring tumor. It is an expensive option but FDA approved so appealable with an academic neurooncologist.

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