Hi,

My mum has had Glioblastoma for 2 years and is getting to the stage where her body is declining, can anyone in this forum help us understand what happens in the last 2 months of a Glioblastoma patients life?

Thanks. Regards, Vishal

A detailled account of her Glioblastoma story is shown below:

My mother was diagnosed with cancel in June 2017, Glioblastoma Stage 4. Tumour is located in the Movement / Speech centre of her brain. Following a successful surgery in June 2017, she had 6 weeks of Radiotheraphy (with Chemotheraphy) and continued Chemotheraphy for 10 months. For 9 months she battelled strongly and was very healthy, she was fit, active and like herself, with very little effects of the chemotheraphy. 

The next MRI scan showed that the tumour had progressed & another surgery was suggested. The second sugery took place in August 2018, however she was not the same after the surgery. She became less active after the surery, the steroids took a toll on her body, she continued on chemotheraphy (various versions), followed by chemo combined with Sattivex (Cannabis Oil) and the cancer began to progress. In December 2018, after another MRI, we were told that the Chemotheraphy wasnt working, and it would be good to try a second round of Radiotheraphy. 

We were told that if we did not do the Radiotheraphy then my mum would have approximately 6 months to live. We did the Radiotheraphy for 10 days in January and had a scan in Mid February, the results showed that the radiotheraphy had not helped and the tumour was progressing. She is no longer on any cancer treatment medication e.g. chemo / radio / sattivex, but has continued anti-sizures and steroids to control the tumour / reduce the swelling. 

April 2019 she had another scan and we were informed that the tumour has progressed in growth.