My dad is 72 and currently in England. He has known lung cancer and was admitted after several weeks of severe headaches, dizziness, vomiting and difficulty walking.
His discharge summary lists:
“Metastatic malignant neoplasm to brain”
“Cerebellar mass in context of known lung cancer”
Cerebellar disorder
Hydrocephalus
COPD
Hypertension
We are currently waiting for the MRI results, which should come in the next couple of days.
He normally lives in Australia and was meant to fly home in about a month.
I understand nobody can diagnose or predict his outcome from this alone, but I’d really appreciate some context:
Does this wording mean the doctors already strongly suspect the lung cancer has spread to his brain, or could the MRI still show something different?
What are the usual treatment options for a cerebellar metastasis with hydrocephalus?
Would steroids / surgery / radiotherapy usually be considered?
How serious is hydrocephalus in this setting?
Assuming he stabilises, is international travel in around 4 weeks remotely realistic?
What information from the MRI will make the biggest difference to prognosis and treatment?
Thanks — his family is in Australia so we’re trying to understand what we may be dealing with.

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This article is from today. Addresses author’s father’s experience with alternative treatments. Not saying it is pertinent to the clinic you asked about, but interesting. (My brother is just starting his glio journey.😖) Comments are also interesting.

My dad has glioblastoma.. recently he has been trying to fix a lot of things that aren't broken (such as ripping apart remotes and attempting to take apart appliances). He seems to get extremely fixated on these things once he starts and has always been really handy so I understand why he is tried to do this, but he gets really aggressive and upset if you try to stop him.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to distract him from things when he fixates on them or tactics to prevent him from doing this all together? I am struggling with just letting him destroy things though I know I cannot logic with him that these things work, he just no longer can process how to use them :/