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Hi can anyone help my husband has gm grade 4 brain tumor and has had surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy but the tumor is still growing.  He was diagnosed in May 2015 and I know prognosis is not good about 1 to 2 years but how will I know when the time is coming , will it slow and painful or will it be quick and painless.  If anyone else has experienced this please help me to help him when the time comes. He is so strong and brave and I am trying to be the same but a title knowledge for the future might help.

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    I'm sorry to hear about your husband. With my experience with cancer each case is different. We watched my nan die after an extremely long drawn out process and then passed on Christmas Day. My  dad was gone in the blink of an eye 3 days after diagnosis. My friends mum was fine one minute then was taken unwell and passed away after a month. My other friends dad had a heart attack. It never seems it's directly the cancer but something else that the cancer has caused. I think you will usually see some sort of deterioration when the time is coming and from there it could be a short or long journey to the end. What I'm trying to say is there is no definate answer to your question. I think you will be a tower of support whatever your path. That's all you can do. Take care

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    Thank you for your kind words, i guess it is different i am just prying that it will be peaceful and not hurt i can't bare to see him suffer.

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    Hi Boo2,

    My husband also has GBM4.  He's had radiotherapy and several different chemos but nothing has worked and it's still not stabilised.  We dont know how long he's got, we chose not to find out but I know everyone's different.  I often think the same as you, I hope it will be quick and painless but then wonder how we'd cope if it was long and drawn out.  My husband is totally amazing the way he's coped (or come across as coping) he's brave and strong just like your husband.  All the things I have going round in my head about 'the end' and i guess untill the time comes we just dont know.

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    hi boo2, my dad has glioblastoma grade 4.. !   how are you now .?

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    hi boo2...   with  G B M . they sleep alot at the end probably for the last couple of weeks, so im hearing. so hopefully peacefull...  at the end..

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