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Metastatic brain tumor: What can I expect?

Posted by dab428 @dab428, Feb 4, 2022

I recently was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Healthy 64 year old. No other health issues or problem prior. Only symptom was left vision issues; got it checked immediately; had surgery to remove the tumor, just finished 6 weeks of radiation and chemo pills and had zero side effects (accept slightly poorer vision). I now go 4-5 weeks without any treatment and go for an MRI. They anticipate me taking chemo pills for a 6 month cycle with periodic MRIs in between. All way too much to accept. Has anyone experienced this type before? What can I expect? Thank you!!!!

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Feb 4, 2022

Hi @dab428, welcome. I can imagine that this is way to much to absorb let alone accept. One step at a time.

Can you tell me a bit more about yourself and your diagnosis? What type of brain tumor do you have? Or did you have cancer that began somewhere else in the body that spread to the brain and caused a brain tumor (metastatic brain cancer)?

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dab428 | @dab428 | Feb 7, 2022
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Hi @dab428, welcome. I can imagine that this is way to much to absorb let alone accept. One step at a time.

Can you tell me a bit more about yourself and your diagnosis? What type of brain tumor do you have? Or did you have cancer that began somewhere else in the body that spread to the brain and caused a brain tumor (metastatic brain cancer)?

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Colleen I had no other cancer detected in my body. Have annual exams, and up to now have been extremely healthy! In the hospital when they took the tumor out of my back right side of head I recovered very quickly and was actually able to leave the hospital in 2.5 days and went right back to work (from home) and have been doing so through out radiation and chemo (pills). When the neurosurgeon visited said they got it all out and that they needed to send it for biopsy but called it a malignant tumor (??) stage 4 which I assume they could tell by just looking ??? So now I feel the way I felt before I got those symptoms of my equilibrium being off and besides a tiny tired from the treatment pretty much my own self. But its that unknown. Having to wait until the MRI to see if anything remained, or grew back? Taking deep breathes!!!!

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