While the average length of survival for patients after diagnosis is eight months, doctors are optimistic advances in research have helped extend patients' lives.
July 20 is Glioblastoma Day, which helps raise awareness of one of the rarest and deadliest forms of brain cancer.
Soon after that, he started experiencing full-blown seizures. A few days passed before he was scheduled to have surgery, but at the time, he was only told there was a mass in his brain. It wasn't until weeks later, at just 29 years old, that Lemus received gut-wrenching news. Doctors told him he had very aggressive brain cancer, and he only had two months to live.But as fate would have it, Lemus found the best team of physicians with UT Health Houston and Memorial Hermann. Now, Dr.
While this is very rare, famous people have lost their battle with GBM. President Joe Biden's son, Beau, died in 2015, and Republican Sen. John McCain died in 2018. "We don't have this magical answer. 'Oh, this is it. We can copy that to many other patients.' We love to know, but don't," he said.
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