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Glioblastoma

The Glioblastoma
Cancer is an enormous problem across the world, infecting millions of people as well as wreaking havoc on their families. Any person can develop cancer virtually anywhere in their body and not know it until it is too late. Although of the cancers, brain cancer isn’t the most common form, although a Glioblastoma is the most fatal. In the United States, fifteen to twenty people in 100,000 are said to develop brain cancer. (www.oncologychannel.com/braincancer/)
In 1994 my father was diagnosed with an Astrocytoma. A form of brain cancer that was clearly life threatening, but with adequate treatment doctors could prolong life for numerous years. The doctors explained it on a numeric scale. They said on a scale of four, the Astrocytoma is a one.
Being 9 years old at the time I really didn’t grasp a good understanding of how serious this really was. The doctors didn’t know how long the cancer had been forming for. They decided it had bee...

Posted by: Leonard Herriman

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