cnn.com — Brain cancer "used to be considered a death sentence, and it's not anymore," says Thomas Sedowski, one of dozens of survivors sharing experiences on iReport.com. With his diagnosis, Sedowski entered the complicated world of cancer, just as Sen. Ted Kennedy has.
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protogenxlMay 22, 2008
It's more like being sent to a Gulag
arcticsoftMay 22, 2008
You had 1 seizure that lasted 6 months?
walwynMay 22, 2008
My Auntie had a brain operation (Tumour of the brain), second one and both worked :) but she had pneumonia due to chemo or smat and died :( r.i.p.
bshockMay 22, 2008
Lottery winner says "You too can be a millionaire!"
coinspinnerMay 22, 2008
Not a death sentence, given that in 1974 researchers at the Medical University of Virginia proved that marijuana kills soft-tissue tumors. The study was reproduced in Madrid, Spain in 2000 along with the determination of how weed actually kills cancer (it does it via two independent mechanisms: re-establishment of programmed cell death via CB2 receptors, and it also halts cancer's ability to spread by stopping the signals for more blood vessels to the tumor). Jack Herer has a recipe that cures cancer on his MySpace page, and yes, this has been tested and is true.Sure is a good thing Mr. Kennedy doesn't live in a country where the government and media covered up this fact.That was a close call.
samcrutMay 22, 2008
My 69 year old dad had a brain tumor the size of a ping pong ball in his cerebellum that we found this past Dec 15th. Dec 24th he had brain surgery at Dr Brent Morgan got the thing out of there. Today my dad's walking around, granted a bit weak, but that's mostly because he's on chemo for the lung cancer which was where it started. He has been told that he needs to get himself a 5 year plan at least because none of this stuff is going to kill him any time soon. The thing is though, you usually don't get "brain cancer" as a primary source of tumors from what I've been told. It starts somewhere else and spreads to the brain. I'm betting Kennedy's PET scan will find another tumor somewhere else.
secretoftheeastMay 22, 2008
My father passed away about a year ago from GBM, and what I can tell you from my own research is that median survival is about 13 months. Most clinical trials about potential new treatments pretty much measure their success by the survival time (meaning they all died at some point before they published results), and the best treatment available is mostly for extending your life. Those that do survive several years in (from what I've read) were "lucky" in that the surgery happened to remove 100% of the tumor.As previous commenters have said, it's all about location and type. I call BS on CNN. I will say though that it's worth giving it your best shot, and anyone whose dealt with this will agree with me that they'd never wish it on their worst enemy.
creatunityDec 12, 2008
Stories like this are very touching. I'm glad this person is a survivor.<a class="user" href="http://www.acaiberrymd.com">http://www.acaiberrymd.com</a>
tank2girlOct 21, 2009
you're an insensitive ahole. The only thing funnier than the way your brother was acting with his brain tumor would have been if the f-ing thing were in your brain and not your brother's head. go f- yourself doush!!!