What are the odds? Yet another Senate-connected case of glioblastoma! Susan Bayh, wife of former Indiana Senator/former Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, had surgery for it May 2018. Same cancer as Sen NoName, Sen Ted Kennedy, and Beau Biden (son of former Vice President and Delaware Senator Joe Biden). Apparently connected to Vietnan Vets and Agent Orange also.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/22/former-indiana-first-lady-has-surgery-to-remove-br/
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/05/22/what-you-need-know-brain-cancer-susan-bayh-has/634457002/
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Enemy turned ally: Poliovirus is used to fight brain tumors
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Jun. 26, 2018
One of the world’s most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack the cancer, doctors report.
It was the first human test of this and it didn’t help most patients or improve median survival. But many who did respond seemed to have long-lasting benefit: About 21 percent were alive at three years versus 4 percent in a comparison group of previous brain tumor patients.
More at: https://apnews.com/d37c5d0e1aea40bc88094d3490a3bb23
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Sen Charles Schumer Calls On U.S. Department Of Veterans' Affairs To Establish A Presumption Of Service Connection For Glioblastoma (Aug 2017).
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rochester-vietnam-vet-battling-terminal-cancer-linked-to-agent-orange-exposure-during-his-military-service-is-seeing-his-compensation-claims-denied-because-va-doesnt-automatically-recognize-his-cancer-as-agent-orange-related-senator-calls-on-feds-to-establish-a-presumption-of-service-connection-for-glioblastoma-so-veterans-can-get-the-benefits-theyve-earned-and-deserve
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The National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) in May 2018 held a first-of-its-kind briefing for members of Congress and their staffs to specifically educate them on the underlying facts about the most common – and most deadly – type of malignant brain tumor, glioblastoma (or GBM).
http://blog.braintumor.org/first-of-its-kind-briefing-for-congress-on-glioblastoma/?src=readmore&id=3784
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U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) sent a letter to Robert DiCrisci, the CEO of Tri-Source Pharma, seeking additional information on a significant price spike for the 40-year-old, off-patent cancer drug lomustine. NextSource Biopharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Tri-Source Pharma, acquired lomustine and increased the price 1,400 percent over a four-year period. Lomustine was originally approved by the FDA in 1976 for treatment of brain tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma. It is one of only four FDA-approved treatments for glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest form of malignant brain tumor in adults. It is also used off-label to treat other forms of cancer.
https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senators-call-tri-source-pharma-explain-1400-price-spike-decades-old-cancer-drug
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Facebook page: Vietnam Veterans with Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Cancer
For those who come across this page please note, this is a Public page and not our closed group for Vietnam Veterans with Glioblastoma. We help those still fighting and we help widows with their VA DIC claims. The only people who can join the closed group MUST have had an immediate family member affected with a GBM4 and the loved one served in the Vietnam ERA. We are working very hard everyday to get this on the VA's presumptive list. Please join our closed group to add your Veterans name to our list to present to Congress to make sure this dreadful disease gets added to the presumptive list. https://www.facebook.com/groups/VietnamVeteranGlioblastom/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/NamTanker/posts/