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Hello all, I found this trial in Europe (Heidelberg Germany): https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02718443 http://abstracts.asco.org/199/...

Stephen, and dear blog visitors, I'd also be grateful if you could review my husband's not so extensive cocktail. Should I increase ...

My 29 years old husband was diagnosed on 3/26 with a multifocal, thalamic GBM. We are from Hungary. He  has undergone surgery on the 5th of ...

Hello all, I came across this article: PARP inhibitor combination therapy " Here, we summarise both the pre-clinical and clinical ...

I lost my dear husband after 32 years of marriage to a GBM that his colleagues at MD Anderson recognized as so genetically virulent, they ...

The study is called  MYC-regulated Mevalonate Metabolism Maintains Brain Tumor Initiating Cells This study constitutes in my view...

Stephen and all, We are trying to decide between treating our son (recurrent glioma, H3 K27 mutant, mutations in ASXL 1 and PIK3CA among ot...

I found some of the discussions on the old cocktails thread at cancer compass concerning DCA useful, including the two below. April 19, 20...

 My father was diagnosed with GBM on 4/15 and he had a total resection surgery on 4/17.  I've been researching pretty much non-stop eve...

my husband had a second recurrence at the end of May.  Further surgery is not an option (he had awake craniotomy with Gliolan in February fo...

As of 2/01/2017, 52 pts were treated on study (1 each at DL1 and DL3, 7 at DL2, 2 at DL4, 4 at DL5, 24 at DL-1 and 13 at DL-2) 20.8% of ...

This was mentioned in the comments a while back (February), but I feel these findings are significant enough to have their own post. The o...

This was an abstract from this year's ASCO conference. Durable complete responses observed in IDH1 mutated high grade glioma at first ...

I recently read that SWI can reliably determine regrowth from pseudo-recurrence. If this is the case why are there so many concerns about ps...

Hello all, I've not fully understood how mIDH1-inhibitors work? I know they reduce 2-HG levels but does that lead to tumour regression...

Hi all, My Dad was diagnosed in Nov. 2016 with GBM (MGMT methylated, Positive for 1p Deletion, NOT IDH1/2). He has completed standard ch...

Hello, my husband's last MRI following his 2nd round of adjuvant TMZ showed his right temporal lobe gbm increased in size by 50% as well...

Any thoughts about using 4200 mg of Boswellia Serrata during SOC?   Received conflicting messages from oncology pharmacists regarding interf...

Many studies have compared 6 cycles of monthly temzolomide to extended temozolomide for newly diagnosed GBM.  However, all of those studies ...

Wanted to share this article for those who may have missed: http://www.oncnursingnews.com/web-exclusives/when-gbm-family-caregivers-feel-c...