Ben's Brain Tumour Blog
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A blog about living with a brain tumour and cancer treatment. "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess" Oscar Wilde
Ben's Brain Tumour Blog
5y ago
Its been over a year since I last posted, sorry about that. in June to August 2018, I had 60gy of radiotherapy to my brain (32 days of treatment) with concurrent temozolomide, lost my hair in the areas which were close to the radiotherapy beams, but hair grows elsewhere. this was nauseating, unpleasant and increased my seizure activity, however, it was tolerable and wouldn't hesitate to do it again if advised. since then, I've been on a cycle of higher dose chemo (380mg p/day x5 consecutive days) every month for the year till today. this was also fairly tolerable once I had found my own way ..read more