What is the average life expectancy for people with glioblastoma brain cancer?

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• The life expectancy of a person with glioblastoma
  brain cancer depends on various factors. For
  this, you may need to understand the disease
  including its symptoms and risk factors.
  Glioblastoma is also called glioblastoma
  multiforme. Glioblastoma is the group of tumors
  called astrocytomas. These tumors start in
  star-shaped cells called astrocytes. These cells
  help to support and provide nourishment to the
  nervous system present in the brain. A
  glioblastoma may contain many different types of
  cells including dead brain cells. It affects
  about 12-15 of people going through the
  different stages of the tumor.
• If you or anyone you know is going through
  underlying symptoms of a brain tumor, let the
• immediate medical consultant know the symptoms.
  You may also require to protect the life of a
  person by giving him/her palliative care. You can
  also consult the experts of Lifeline Hospital.
• Glioblastoma and related facts
• Glioblastoma is one of the aggressive and major
  problematic diseases that can happen to anyone.
  It affects the brain and the spinal cord.
• Glioblastoma can occur to anyone or at any age.
  However, it tends to occur more often in adults.
  It can cause the worst situations of headaches,
  nausea, vomiting, and seizures.
• It is one of the most difficult types of cancer.
  The treatments, however, show progression in
  cancer and may reduce the risk factors, symptoms,
  and signs.
• This is one of the major types of brain tumors
  that grows at a fast rate inside the brain. The
  cells copy themselves and possess a lot of the
  space of the blood vessels to feed.
• There is rarely any chance that it may spread to
  other body parts.
• Glioblastoma is sometimes called grade 4
  astrocytoma tumors. There is a scale that
• ranges from number 1 to 4. The scaling indicates
  how fast the tumor is growing and spreading
  inside the body.
• A grade 4 is the most aggressive scaling of the
  brain tumor. It spreads at a faster rate and
  throughout the brain.

What are the types of glioblastoma?

• The life expectancy of a person with glioblastoma
  brain cancer depends on the types of
  glioblastoma and its occurrence in the body.
  Majorly, there are two different types of
  glioblastoma cancer. It can be
• Primary (de novo) It is one of the most common
  types of glioblastoma cancer. It is an
  aggressive type of cancer that dominates the
  whole body system.
• Secondary glioblastoma It is comparatively less
  common and grows at a slower rate. It
• starts with low-grade and is called less
  aggressive astrocytoma. However, it affects
  nearly 10 of people with this type of brain
  cancer. The disease can affect people over the
  age of 40 or 45 or even younger.

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• Glioblastomas often grow in the frontal and
  temporal lobes of the brain. They can also
  affect other parts of the brain including the
  brain stem, cerebellum, spinal cord, and other
  different parts.
• What are the survival rates and life expectancy
  of a person with glioblastoma brain cancer?
• The minimum survival time with glioblastoma brain
  cancer is around 15 -16 months. People may get
  surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy
  treatments. There are chances that
• people may survive till the symptoms of the grain
  cancer persist in the body. However, the chances
  of survival for people affected with glioblastoma
  are different for every different
• person. Some may survive to at least 5 years
  which is itself a rare period of expectancy.
• What is the survival rate in children?
• Children possessing high-grade cancer tend to
  survive longer than adults. Around 25 of kids
  possess a survival rate of 5 years or more.
• How far can the expectancy of survival increase?
• Many new treatments are advancing in the field of
  cancers and their treatment. It can provide
  better survival rates. It is the kind of
  treatment that repairs damaged cells.
• Treatments like chemotherapy kill glioblastoma
  cells and MGMT is the type of treatment that
  fixes them. MGMT methylation prevents the repair
  of the aggressive tumor cells and
• ensures that more cells are killed.
• What are the glioblastoma treatments?
• Glioblastoma is the kind of disease that is hard
  to treat. The most important fact is that
  glioblastoma cancers grows at faster rate. The
  tumors of this type have many different types
• of cells. For some people, few treatments may
  work and for others, none of the treatments may
  work. However, the treatment options include
• Surgery
• Your surgeon may handle the surgery of your
  glioblastoma cancer. The goal of the surgery
• is to remove the tumor as much as possible. And
  because the tumor is growing at a faster rate, a
  complete removal is not possible. It may also be
  because of the presence of tumors in the normal
  brain cells. For this reason, people are given
  additional treatments after surgery. This may
  affect the remaining cells of the cancers that
  are growing quickly.
• Radiation therapy

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• Radiation therapy utilizes high-energy beams. It
  accompanies the use of X-rays and protons rays
  that kill the cancer cells. During radiation
  therapy, your surgeon may suggest you lie down
  on the table while the machine moves around you.
  This may direct the beams to the precise points
  of the brain. Your surgeon may follow radiation
  therapy faster than surgery or after
  chemotherapy. It can also be given as a primary
  treatment.
• Chemotherapy
• Chemotherapy utilizes the drugs that kill the
  cancer cells. In certain cases, there come thin
  circular wafers that contain chemotherapy
  medicines. These are placed inside the brain
• during the surgery. The wafers dissolve slowly
  and release the medicine. The medicine in the
  wafers affects the cancer cells and their growth.
  After the surgery, your doctor may prescribe
• you chemotherapy drugs such as temozolomide
  (Temodar) that may be taken as part of the
  treatment.
• Tumor treating fields (TTF) therapy
• It is the type of treatment that utilizes
  electric field radiation to disrupt the tumor
  cells. TTF
• may involve the attachment of the adhesive pads
  to your scalp. These pads accompany the portable
  device that generates electric fields. Your
  surgeon may follow this treatment after
  chemotherapy.