she has a stage II, inoperable, cancerous brain tumor called an astrocytoma. My sister is 59 years old. It’s the same type of tumor our little brother had when he was 13. My sister seems to be taking it rather mildly. On the outside anyway.
Me, I’m madder than a hornet. It’s just not fair that my little sister has come down with cancer three times in her lifetime. And my little brother came down with cancer twice in his lifetime and died of it at age 36. And me, scot free all my life. I am so blessed in many ways.
Cancer sucks, the average life expectancy for pancreatic cancer is 6 months, my uncle lived 4 months. He died at 35y.o. from a heart attack during a coma, the cancer spread to his brain, heart and all his body despite chemotherapy.
My brother was diagnosed with astrocytoma of the brain when he was 13 back in 1984 and they treated it as cancer with surgery, chemo and radiation.
Now, my sister’s current doctors think that my brother’s tumor was actually benign and he was treated with chemo and radiation for nothing and that his treatment actually caused his eventual death of renal cancer 23 years later.
I don’t know if my sister’s astrocytoma is curable. They say it’s inoperable. It’s stage 2. And it won’t metastasize to other places. And its slow growing. So we may be able to buy some time with chemo and radiation.