When high-profile people are diagnosed with this rare, yet aggressive disease, many patients feel empathy and hope for more progress.
“I just read the most standard web pages about it,” said JB, who lives in Dade City, Florida. “That was aside from health care providers trying to explain it to me from my hospital bed while I was recovering from surgery. I didn’t retain much of the information then.”
JB said his family and friends also were unaware of GBM – the most common and most aggressive type of primary brain tumor that affects 12,500 adults in the U.S. each year. Most people he meets have never heard of it.
I hope this motivates researchers who are looking for solutions because the disease can progress so fast.
Brian Biggs, GBM patient