[OrangeHoof]

Not to sound callous but, is there brain cancer that is not “particularly deadly”? Is the author adding a bit of dramatic flourish needlessly? It’s not enough that he is fighting brain cancer but he has to fight a “particularly deadly form” of brain cancer. As if just normal brain cancer wouldn’t be enough to prevent him from doing his job.

[freespirited]

Is the author adding a bit of dramatic flourish needlessly?

IIRC this kind of brain cancer has a worse prognosis than some of the others. I dont know whether "particularly deadly" is accurate though.

[libstripper]

There are a few that are at least treatable, if not curable, but a glioblastoma, the one he has, is the 100% fatal, evil black queen of them all. To learn it was a glioblasotma took some careful Pravada-like reading since each of the MSM articles about his condition buried the lede several paragraphs down.

[goat granny]

I would say brain tumors are not always deadly. My brother had an acoustical neuroma, non cancerous,(they arise from the inner ear and grow out into the brain) Benign tumor, he had 4 crainotomys and a shunt put in and he had to press a button under the skin behind his ear to drain the fluid that collects in the ventricles of the brain, but never lost who he was, just short term memory problems and a balance problem but could still play a mean game of pinochle or bingo...Lived about 10 years with it...but brain cancer is a horse of another color...can leave you a vegetable or kill you quick. I don't think there is any cure for brain cancer yet, but on this I could be mistaken.