Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Astrocytoma (July 28, 2006)

Do you know what astrocytoma is?

Here's a link for the information.

I was in Malang on Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday, there was a male patient, still young, around 35 y.o. had that tumor. It was malignant, he's lost his concious, based on his Glasgow Coma Scale which was very low.

astrocytoma

After surgery he will need chemotherapy, radiation, etc, so the tumor won't grow again. That's the theory, in reality, after surgery was done, most patient if they feel better, they won't come to see their doctor for checkups.

Anyway.........the neurosurgeons were able to remove the tumor, inspite of limited supporting equipments they have.


For you out there:

- Take care of the food you eat. Avoid junkfood and fastfood, fatty food, etc. Love your body.

- Even people at young age can get tumor! Based on my three last brain tumor surgeries, patients are considered young.

- Male and female patients are balance, although my neurosurgeon told me that women has bigger chance to get tumor! It's the hormones, they said.

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