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I wouldn't call radiation non invasive, it ages the surrounding brain tissue a lot. For people with faster growing tumors like GBM the tumor will usually kill them before the side …

Because my wife has cancer and I don't want our kids to grow up without their mom.

A cure for cancer. That's something no amount of money can currently buy.

Yes, we are relatively lucky that it's a low grade glioma. Sorry to hear about your dad, GBM is a monster. The oncologist told us life expectancy is around 15 years which, while ~1…

I've been following this field with great interest since my wife was diagnosed with brain cancer. It seems many types of cancer can evolve resistance to treatment with a single typ…

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There is no way to make sure, nothing in life is "sure", especially not the random mutations that cause cancer. Just eat healthy, exercise, enjoy life, and tell people you love the…

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As I understand it, most chemotherapy targets only dividing cells. In adult humans there are relatively few of these: cancer cells (which you want to kill), bone marrow (produces b…

The downside with adaptive immune system therapy (like CAR-T therapy) is that it doesn't work as well with cancers with fewer mutations that the T cell can detect as anomalous. My …

IVF babies aren't guaranteed to be infertile, they just have a slightly higher chance of it (because of selection bias in the parents). My wife and I might well have babies via IVF…

My wife went for routine blood tests yesterday and they didn't even bother to tell her that the insurance her employer switched to in 2017 treats this lab as out of network (it was…

I don't think it's as easy as you portray it. To "cure death", you have to cure every thing that can go wrong with you. Look at just once thing that can go wrong with you: cancer. …

I wish you strength and courage too. My wife was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor (had no idea until I woke up to her having a seizure in bed next to me) and my previous world…