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Brain Cancer Discussions

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Life Insurance
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I don't want this message to come across as cold and heartless, but I have a question.  Is it possible to get life insurance on someone that has B...
509/23/08 Message Rating
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My Mother in Law
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Just an update to my previous posts - my dear mother in law passed away 9/21/08 very peacefully at home with my husband and his sisters at her side.She did not ...
209/23/08 Message Rating
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Information on New clinical tr...
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I found this on another group that I belong to and while I do not have Brain Cancer, many on our other site do. Here is some helpful and promising information. ...
009/23/08 Message Rating
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Tarceva Stopped Working -Brain...
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I was diagnosed 6-10-07 with stage 4 lung cancer with multiple brain mets. I had WBR and went on Tarceva.  Now Tarceva has stopped working after only few m...
209/23/08 Message Rating
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Switched to Keppra
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Hi everyone,Yesterday I celebrated my first year anniversary of diagnosis (GBM, right temporal lobe)  with a seisure.  I had been taking Dilantin sinc...
709/23/08 Message Rating
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Question for Eve.
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My 56 yr old husband was diagnosed with GBMIV in June of this year.  Right Temporal Lobe.  Completed radiation and Temedor.  Just received result...
409/22/08 Message Rating
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Brick in the road
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Hi Everyone, I havent been able to post in awhile, but have checked the board from time to time. Just to give an update. My mom's surgery on June10, 2008 we...
009/22/08 Message Rating
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Avastin/CPT 11...Sick all the ...
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Hi All,My mom was diagnosed this spring with GBM4. Complete (at least everything they could see) resection. She did the usual 7 weeks of radiation/tem...
709/21/08 Message Rating
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Just Diagnosed and Scared
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My husband was diagnosed with GBM on Sept. 14th 2008.  I took him to the ER on a Monday morning of Aug. 25th because he was falling down, couldn't use ...
1609/20/08 Message Rating
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3 month old with GBM IV "Baby...
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This is my first message on here. I have been reading all the messages tonight and realized maybe someone could help us.  My 3 month old granddaughter was ...
609/20/08 Message Rating
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my husband
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my husband was diganosed with gbm grade 4 late part of june . they wanted to do surgery then but because of all the asprine he had been taken for headachs they ...
509/20/08 Message Rating
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1 year post dx; just living my...
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I'm one year post dx next week. Right occipital GBM 4, full resection, temodar/rads which made my platelets take a dive, switched to Avastin/CPT11  aft...
1009/19/08 Message Rating
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Taking Lemons and Making Lemon...
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I would like for everyone to be keeping our family in their thoughts during the next few weeks, please....My precious dad, Leo, gave up his fight with Gliosarco...
109/19/08 Message Rating
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wondering
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I have been reading some of the msg and following the progress of gbm in some of the members.  My mom, who is 65yr, was diagnosed in March 2008 with a gbm ...
409/19/08 Message Rating
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cancer finances
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I would like for someone who currently lives in another country to explain to us how much OUT OF POCKET expense is paid on a cancer bill in your contry.Try to b...
609/19/08 Message Rating
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My father is at Peace
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My father lost his 17 month fight with GBM on Sunday.  It happened so quickly.  He was in no pain.  He was very brave and I am so very proud of h...
1109/18/08 Message Rating
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Reliv
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Anyone out there that has taken Reliv for 5+ years and been cured of brain cancer.  Is the cure documented by a doctor? Thankslonnarae
309/18/08 Message Rating
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Temodar & Veteran's Admin
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Does anyone know if Temodar is on the list of VA approved prescriptions drugs?I have had to jump through a truck load of hoop and cut through a mile of red tape...
209/17/08 Message Rating
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Treatment sequence
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Hello all, I am new (unfortunately due to brother's GBM) to this message board.  I have tried researching as much as I can about the different tre...
609/17/08 Message Rating
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News about the vaccine
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My Dad was suppose to get the vaccine but at the very end didn't make it in. Thank God he didnt cuz now they said the vaccine was discolored and they took i...
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Pregnancy, one year after the ...
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Hello,I have a brain tumour, I had surgery in 2001, it started again in 2004, i had surgery (grade 2-3). The surgeon left 10 % of the tumour (it is in the lef...
109/17/08 Message Rating
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Who treats you is vitally impo...
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Who treats you?1. Neuro-oncologist2. Oncologist3. Neurologist______________________________________________I was just darn lucky that when I was Dx with GBM iv ...
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The end of avastin treatment-q...
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Hi all, A litle BG here. I am a 50 year old female.  i was 49 in June 2007 when Dx with GBMiv. FIrst craniotomy was 6-5-07. I started radiation 5x a w...
409/16/08 Message Rating
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Urgent Help Needed
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My dad was supposed to start radiation today for GBMIV but they found blood clots in his lungs and now he is on heprin. They cannot do radiation while he is on ...
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Quick question to do with plat...
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My Dad platlet count is 78 which is low and has to wait now to take temador they said until it is over 100? Has anyone else gone through this? Is this common? I...
109/16/08 Message Rating
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