Glioblastoma Multiforme is usually only has a survival rate up to one year after diagnosis. This primary brain tumor's standard treatment is surgery to remove as much as the cancer as possible, radiation and or chemotherapy. Even with the most aggressive forms of treatment the patients do not survive.
Researchers are trying to improve survival of patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma. The results of a phase III clinical trial published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology tried to improve survival rates by using a treatment consisting of cisplatin, carmustine and radiation therapy. Unfortunately this regimin produced more adverse side effects and did not improve survival.
My uncle died of a brain tumor. He died in 1987. I do not think that this disease has any better cure rate then it did back then. He died a little over a year after he was diagnosed. It doesn't seem that chemotherapy or radiation works for this type of cancer but it's all we got so we try new combinations.
1. My brother Len died of brain cancer (Kristi's
uncle) he was only 40 years old. To me it was
like yesterday. There was really nothing they could
do. It was One of the worse things I thought that ever happened to our family. He left a wife & 3 children.
My mom & dad were never the same.
Then my only child Kristi was dx w/ BC I was
devistated. Now my brothers wife has BC I find
this so unbelievable!!!!
Does anyone think they will ever find a cure for this
horrible disease.
One can only hope.
Patti Anastasi
Posted at 7:33PM on Aug 30th 2006 by patti anastasi