u/Hantring

Advice on parieto-occipital glioblastoma

Hi, I would like to know if there are any treatments we haven't considered. My 62-year-old grandmother was diagnosed a month ago with a right parieto-occipital glioblastoma. The tumor is 6.5 cm, necrotic, and hemorrhagic. Surgery and biopsy are not recommended; only palliative radiotherapy remains. I would like to know your advice. Are there any experimental therapies, and if not, I would like to hear about your experiences and what the future holds? We live in Chile, and she is currently in the capital with my mother because the technology is more advanced there.

Also, if you have any advice on how to deal with her, I would appreciate it, because sometimes she has panic attacks and says "I don't want to die," and when that happens we don't know what to say to calm her down.

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u/Hantring — 3 days ago