Hi Linda,

We live in Wellington. The prognosis we have been give is 1 to 2
years so its good to hear of someone doing much better than that.

Susan--- In nzbraintumour@yahoogroups.com, "linbrusco" <linzis@...>
wrote:
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> Hi Susan, we are from Sth Auckland, and my husband was diagnosed at
> 41yrs of age back in 2004 with a Gde 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma in his
> left frontal lobe.
> He had surgery and radiation in 2004, and another surgery and chemo
in
> 2005.
>
> It is now coming up 5 yrs in March, and our children are now 6 & 11.
> Despite what we were told by Oncologist/Neurologists (the doom and
> gloom, and worst case scenarios) he is doing reasonably well, and
has
> had continued good MRI results since 2005.
>
> Although the immediate world between a patient with a Gde 3 and a
Gde
> 4 is not too dissimilar, the treatment is or can be.
> I can well imagine at the moment you are feeling quite shell
shocked.
> If we can be of any help here on this board just let us know
>
> Whereabouts in NZ are you from?
>
> take care
> Linda
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> --- In nzbraintumour@yahoogroups.com, "peake.susan" <peake.susan@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Last month my husband had surgery to remove a 5 cm tumour from
his
> > front left lobe, which turned out to b a grade 4 GBM. This has
been a
> > major shock and change to our family as Stefan is only 38 and we
have 3
> > kids (15, 13, 10). He starts Rad and Chemo next week. Thanks Susan
> >
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