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QUESTION: hello My 62 year old mom was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme in november 2008.She is a smoker and does not really excersize.she is quite thin only weighing approximatley 95 lbs.can you tell me what her survival approximatley is with this disease....the doctors told us they can only tell us if she gives us permission and she is refusing.she thinks she will live 20 more years ...thankyou.
ANSWER: This kind of tumor does have a very bad prognosis indeed! Regardless of treatment she has a most probable survival time of at most one to two years from her primary treatment but it may be shorter. ALL patients with this tumor die of it (unless they die from something else before that). NO ONE survives it and there is at present NO cure. I'm sorry I have nothing better to tell you!
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QUESTION: Hello...i was just wondering then she has had chemo temodol and radiation and a resection of the tumor already does that mean that it is still that survival approximatley?thankyou.
Yes unfortunately. That is why I did write "regardless of treatment...".
At present no cure is possible. Treatment prolongs the survival time somewhat and decreases symptoms somewhat and temporarily but again no cure is at the moment possible. The time estimate I gave you includes these treatment effects.
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| Comment | This Volunteer was very helpful...and the answers they gave were very clear and precise...i thankyou for your candor and helpfulness....We have a meeting with the oncologist tommoro for the results of the mri from her 7 week scan and hopefully the treatments will have bought her some time....if not then i am glad that i know the survival time... | ||
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Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D.
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I`m a doctor of medicine and specialist in radiation therapy and medical oncology. I have a long time experience of these tumours.
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I'm a Doctor of Medicine and specialist in Medical Oncology and Radiation Therapy, educated and trained in Sweden. Now retired. Background in Radiation Therapy, Medical Oncology, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Gynecological Oncology, Clinical Pathology, Clinical Cytology,Hematology and Internal Medicine. M.D. from the faculty of medicine, Royal Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Have also been an exchange student at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Israel. Former medical consultant, Swedish National Board of Radiation Protection. Former Police Surgeon and Medical Examiner, Stockholm Police Department. Former Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Guards, The Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Household Brigade, Royal Swedish Army Medical Corps. You can also reach me on: http://www.lifestylerescue.com/expert/health-fitness-advice/dr-claes-gustaf/128 . I have no restrictions on the number of questions there. I also answer questions about Oncology (General Cancer),
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