Tiger Down
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“Doctors successfully performed the procedure Friday to remove the mass,” the family said in a social media post that was verified by LSU athletics spokesman Michael Bonnette. “We are awaiting biopsy results.”
If he's lucky, it's a meningioma. They tend to grow large and are asymptomatic - until they're not. However, they are benign, and don't invade brain tissue. Also, they have a characteristic appearance and are relatively easy to diagnose in the OR.
There are few other tumors in the head that are as forgiving.
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Ugh...
Medulloblastomas are invasive, rapidly growing tumors that, unlike most brain tumors, spread through the cerebrospinal fluid and frequently metastasize to different locations along the surface of the brain and spinal cord. Metastasis all the way down to the cauda equina at the base of the spinal cord is termed "drop metastasis".
Better than a GBM, of course.
The historical cumulative relative survival rate for all age groups and histology follow-up was 60%, 52%, and 47% at 5 years, 10 years, and 20 years, respectively. Patients diagnosed with a medulloblastoma or PNET are 50 times more likely to die than a matched member of the general population. The most recent population-based (SEER) 5-year relative survival rates are 69% overall: 72% in children (1–9 years) and 67% in adults (20+ years). The 20-year survival rate is 51% in children. Children and adults have different survival profiles, with adults faring worse than children only after the fourth year after diagnosis (after controlling for increased background mortality). Before the fourth year, survival probabilities are nearly identical.
I might have seen one or two when I did my peds rotation, decades ago, but I don't recall seeing one in an adult.
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Patients diagnosed with a medulloblastoma or PNET are 50 times more likely to die than a matched member of the general population.
I’m calling bullshit on that.
@jon-nyc said in Tiger Down:
Patients diagnosed with a medulloblastoma or PNET are 50 times more likely to die than a matched member of the general population.
I’m calling bullshit on that.
Elaborate, please?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I dont want to "derail" this as I hope the best for him, but more from curiousity about this:
A fund has been launched by the Tiger Athletic Foundation, a private, non-profit corporation supporting LSU athletics, to help cover medical expenses for Brooks and his family as he continues treatment.
I would have thought that big time athletic programs would have had insurance for the athletes on the team.
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@jon-nyc said in Tiger Down:
Patients diagnosed with a medulloblastoma or PNET are 50 times more likely to die than a matched member of the general population.
I’m calling bullshit on that.
Elaborate, please?
@George-K said in Tiger Down:
@jon-nyc said in Tiger Down:
Patients diagnosed with a medulloblastoma or PNET are 50 times more likely to die than a matched member of the general population.
I’m calling bullshit on that.
Elaborate, please?
Both groups shall experience 100% mortality. Perhaps they meant to specify a time period, but they didn’t.
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