[NautiNurse]

Depends on the kind of tumor. I understand it is malignant, but some are much more aggressive than others.

Glioma blastoma rates at the top of aggressive brain tumors with very poor prognosis.

[SE Mom]

Pinged you with this to the other thread- this is a deadly diagnosis.

[georgiagirl_pam]

From what I understand about Glioma Blastoma (my friend’s father just past away after 16 months) is that even when you go in to try to remove it, it is like a plant that shoots out its seed when touched, it “blasts” out cells to surrounding areas. My friend’s father had removal surgery, the gamma knife, chemo. He went down hill fast in the end. Very difficult. Prayers for his family.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

My mother died of a glioblastoma, two months after her diagnosis.

Of course that was over 20 years ago; don’t know if treatments have improved.

[AuntB]

“Glioma blastoma rates at the top of aggressive brain tumors with very poor prognosis.”

Is that what he has? No, not good at all. Has anyone heard the size?

[pepperdog]

It is really, really aggressive. My relative lived less than one month from diagnosis to death. Surgery was tried, but he never recovered from it. He was in his 80’s, so older than Kennedy. I think it is a particularly hard way to die, at least for the family.