Questions about Cancer ( Archived) (23)

Yes, Trish. It's Monday. Which would be why I'm so on edge at the moment. He's having a good day today and remembering things.

OK...I looked online for you. The answer is that one cell mutates, this causes rapid growth of other mutated cells, crowding out the surrounding good cells. Then one mutates again, causing even more rapid growth...this happens 4 times without metastasis.

I think he may have written a book about it all as well, but i cant remember his name, all i remember his as was a marine (i think) who was blonde.

Ironically he was responsible for the rethinking on weapon design on dropped weapons on the battlefield, and on the way you treat enemy combatants who you would normally walk by assuming their dead.

Well in his case he walked by a man who was playing dead and blew the back of his head off.I remember he was airlifted to the medical ship and they basically used the triage system and basically thought he would die, but when they realised he was still "viable" they pulled out all the stops and put a metal plate to replace the part of the skull he lost, and stretched the scalp over the wound.

Absolute true story, but i cant remember the gents name.

The really unbelievable part of all this is how quickly it's happened. He'd been having headaches for a while, but just found out about the tumor a few weeks ago.

Those headaches were probably the beginning of the tumor growing and putting pressure inside of his brain. There's no room for anything extra. And some cancers grow faster than others.

Not sure if this is any help Dana but years ago I read of a man who was hospitalized for some fairly serious medical issue and during his stay a nurse noticed that his head barely left an impression on the pillow. At least not in the way that anyone else did. She noted this to the doctor and they ended up doing some CAT scans. He had absolutely no brain whatsoever just a brain stem surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid. Subsequent testing indicated that he had an IQ of 126 and was completely normal.
Science has proven and witnessed things of this sort for a very long time.
Many neurologists feel that this is a tribute to the brains redundancy and it's ability to reassign functions. Others, however, are not so sure.
Norman Geschwind, a neurologist at Bostons Beth Israel Hospital agrees: "Certainly the brain has a remarkable capacity for reassigning functions following trauma, but you can usually pick up some kind of deficit with the right tests, even after apparently full recovery."
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
My prayers are added to those for Adam. I have faith he will be ok.
God Bless,

~ Mark

Interesting. Very, very interesting story.

Yeah, I know. Thats why he finally told his mom and they went to the doctor. It just seems this one must be very aggressive for all of this to get this bad so quickly. Poor thing. It was good to chat with him this morning. I usually just let Em, but today I took a few minutes with him myself before turning him over to her.

Em is actually grounded from the computer at the moment, but I do let her chat with Adam whenever he wants. She seems to have been a great help to him.

The brain basically reroutes messages through different synaps.

That's the really short version.