suddenseizure

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by suddenseizure 2y ago
I wouldn't call radiation non invasive, it ages the surrounding brain tissue a lot. For people with faster growing tumors like GBM the tumor will usually kill them before the side effects of radiation hit. But for people with slower gr
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by suddenseizure 4y ago
Because my wife has cancer and I don't want our kids to grow up without their mom.
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by suddenseizure 4y ago
A cure for cancer. That's something no amount of money can currently buy.
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by suddenseizure 7y ago
Yes, we are relatively lucky that it's a low grade glioma. Sorry to hear about your dad, GBM is a monster. The oncologist told us life expectancy is around 15 years which, while ~10x better than GBM, is a pretty disappointing thing to
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by suddenseizure 7y ago
I've been following this field with great interest since my wife was diagnosed with brain cancer. It seems many types of cancer can evolve resistance to treatment with a single type of immunotherapy. Similar to how HIV quickly evolved
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by suddenseizure 8y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-bec...
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by suddenseizure 8y ago
There is no way to make sure, nothing in life is "sure", especially not the random mutations that cause cancer. Just eat healthy, exercise, enjoy life, and tell people you love them while you can.
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by suddenseizure 8y ago
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by suddenseizure 9y ago
As I understand it, most chemotherapy targets only dividing cells. In adult humans there are relatively few of these: cancer cells (which you want to kill), bone marrow (produces blood cells, so you have to monitor blood cell counts during
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by suddenseizure 9y ago
The downside with adaptive immune system therapy (like CAR-T therapy) is that it doesn't work as well with cancers with fewer mutations that the T cell can detect as anomalous. My wife has brain cancer and has been reading about all th
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by suddenseizure 9y ago
IVF babies aren't guaranteed to be infertile, they just have a slightly higher chance of it (because of selection bias in the parents). My wife and I might well have babies via IVF because she can't get pregnant while on chemother
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by suddenseizure 10y ago
My wife went for routine blood tests yesterday and they didn't even bother to tell her that the insurance her employer switched to in 2017 treats this lab as out of network (it was in network with the previous insurance just a week ago
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by suddenseizure 10y ago
I don't think it's as easy as you portray it. To "cure death", you have to cure every thing that can go wrong with you. Look at just once thing that can go wrong with you: cancer. There are huge amounts of money poured
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by suddenseizure 10y ago
I wish you strength and courage too. My wife was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor (had no idea until I woke up to her having a seizure in bed next to me) and my previous world, all our plans, have shattered. The horrible thing about br