RIP Gary Carter

Has to be scary ... And the wait, ugh. Agony.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/05/21/hall-fame-catcher-gary-carter-diagnosed-brain-tumors/?test=latestnews

 

Re: Gary Carter diagnosed with small brain tumors

Weird, very weird, that he would "announce" this so soon.

 

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Good luck to Gary.

 

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Are "small" brain tumors like "mild" concussions, heart attacks or strokes? Any is too much.

Good luck to Carter and his family. Hopefully the outcome is better than we might fear.

 

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Update: Carter's brain tumors are inoperable, doctors say; non-surgical treatment is next http://bit.ly/isLILZ

 

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Not being flippant (for a change) but I wonder if he used a cell phone a lot? The cancer he has was one I had not heard of until yesterday's cell-phone-causes-cancer-story.

 

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I lost a friend to glioblastoma a few years ago. He was 40. It's a bitch of a tumor.

 

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I wondered that also after reading the story yesterday. Also could be camera's.

 

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Per the NY Times, it's the same time of brain cancer that struck Bobby Murcer, Tug McGraw, Dick Howser, Dan Quisenberry and Johnny Oates. Make me wonder if there isn't some sort of correlation with chewing tobacco use being a causation (I know - small sample size and I don't even know how many, or any, of those players chewed).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/sports/baseball/former-met-gary-carter-has-aggressive-brain-cancer.html

As someone whose dad was killed by brain cancer, all I can do is say to cross your fingers and hope in the latest treatments.

 

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I know some kids with glioblastoma. Nasty, nasty, nasty disease. It's actually the most common type of brain tumor according to the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblastoma_multiforme

And multiple tumor sites make it even worse.

 

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Glioblastoma mulitforme is the most common malignant brain tumor and as the one that also killed Ted Kennedy. The latest study about cell phone use and brain cancer risk put it at the level of being near a microwave. Still too early to tell but bluetooth or ear piece use can't hurt. Remember that the phone manufacturers recommend holding the phone a half inch or more away from your ear when using it.

Glioblastoma is uniformly fatal and the survival after diagnosis is measured in months. Appreciated these statistics are from 2003 but because Gary Carter cannot undergo surgery, his median survival is 7 1/2 months, his one year survival is 28% and three year is only 1%.

http://ow.ly/56W0m

 

Re: Gary Carter diagnosed with small brain tumors

Ryan Leaf recovering after having a tumor removed from his brain stem.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Ryan-Leaf-is-recovering-from-surgery-to-remove-a?urn=nfl-wp2303