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Brain Tumours: Living low grade
Slow growing brain tumours change lives forever.
This readable and moving non-technical guide is about living with a low grade tumour, a diagnosis given to thousands of people every year. It gives patients and loved ones everything they need to know about these types of brain tumours, from symptoms and treatments, to life with the disease and possible outcomes. All told in a sympathetic and knowledgable way.
Featuring dozens of personal testimonies from those dealing daily with the impact of their tumours, this book offers information, support and reassurance for those with a low grade brain tumour, their family and friends.
Father of three Gideon Burrows was told he had an incurable and inoperable low grade glioma brain tumour aged just 35. He discovered information was scarce for those with slow growing brain tumours and about the particular challenges patients like him face.
In this book, he shares his own experiences and those of many others as they came to understand their diagnosis and learned how to live low grade.
Get full and detailed information What is a low grade brain tumour
Symptoms and signs
Life challenges
Family and friends
Getting medical information
Treatment
Prognosis
Reasons to be cheerful
Resources A word from the "When I was first diagnosed with an oligodendroglioma, I felt so alone. I was given the diagnosis, and told to go away and get on with whatever life I had left. It wasn't what I needed. I needed information. I needed support. I needed the truth. I couldn't find any of that, and I realised so many others were going through the same experience. So, I dealt with my tumour and my trauma by writing about it. I hope Living Low Grade gives every reader and their family what they need to deal with this devastating disease" With love and hope, Gideon "Just diagnosed, this is a book which will help make sense of your fears." ★★★★★ Amazon "Gideon has written a very honest and helpful book about how to live with the constant uncertainty, for both patient and family. Without hesitation an excellent book." ★★★★★ Amazon
"This book was better than a support group!" ★★★★★ Amazon "This was an amazing, insightful, pragmatic and humorous read, which I've been able to share with my husband who has been recently diagnosed. I cried at times and nodded in knowingness and understanding at other times." ★★★★★ Amazon "As a sufferer of exactly the same type of Brain tumour as the author this has been the most valuable resource i have read since my diagnosis surgery and chemo." ★★★★★ Amazon
This readable and moving non-technical guide is about living with a low grade tumour, a diagnosis given to thousands of people every year. It gives patients and loved ones everything they need to know about these types of brain tumours, from symptoms and treatments, to life with the disease and possible outcomes. All told in a sympathetic and knowledgable way.
Featuring dozens of personal testimonies from those dealing daily with the impact of their tumours, this book offers information, support and reassurance for those with a low grade brain tumour, their family and friends.
Father of three Gideon Burrows was told he had an incurable and inoperable low grade glioma brain tumour aged just 35. He discovered information was scarce for those with slow growing brain tumours and about the particular challenges patients like him face.
In this book, he shares his own experiences and those of many others as they came to understand their diagnosis and learned how to live low grade.
Get full and detailed information What is a low grade brain tumour
Symptoms and signs
Life challenges
Family and friends
Getting medical information
Treatment
Prognosis
Reasons to be cheerful
Resources A word from the "When I was first diagnosed with an oligodendroglioma, I felt so alone. I was given the diagnosis, and told to go away and get on with whatever life I had left. It wasn't what I needed. I needed information. I needed support. I needed the truth. I couldn't find any of that, and I realised so many others were going through the same experience. So, I dealt with my tumour and my trauma by writing about it. I hope Living Low Grade gives every reader and their family what they need to deal with this devastating disease" With love and hope, Gideon "Just diagnosed, this is a book which will help make sense of your fears." ★★★★★ Amazon "Gideon has written a very honest and helpful book about how to live with the constant uncertainty, for both patient and family. Without hesitation an excellent book." ★★★★★ Amazon
"This book was better than a support group!" ★★★★★ Amazon "This was an amazing, insightful, pragmatic and humorous read, which I've been able to share with my husband who has been recently diagnosed. I cried at times and nodded in knowingness and understanding at other times." ★★★★★ Amazon "As a sufferer of exactly the same type of Brain tumour as the author this has been the most valuable resource i have read since my diagnosis surgery and chemo." ★★★★★ Amazon
196 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 21, 2013
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About the author
Gideon Burrows
33 books24 followersGideon Burrows is an award winning author of novels and non-fiction books that aim to make you uncomfortable, allow you recover, and then make you feel completely refreshed.
Or else guilty. Or exhilarated. Or maybe a combination of these things.
Like taking a cold shower.
His near future novels, including Future Shop and Portico, tackle the challenging world of the near future: how social media, the metaverse, virtual reality, multi-player games and more may be sending us to hell. You'll never let your kids on the internet again.
His contemporary novels, including The Illustrator's Daughter and The Spiral, are about families and individuals in difficult situations: whether facing brake-ups, illness, prejudice, mental health breakdown or domestic violence. Through challenging our fundamental believes and values, he aims to make every reader think about their own comfortable lives.
As G D Burrows, he writes action fiction about ninjas. Awesome ninjas, who wear cool ninja gowns, have high tech ninja weapons, and take on the bad guys with their super martial arts skills and techniques. Think James Bond or Jack Reacher – but in full ninja garb, and based in London's East End. That kind of thing.
Gideon is really interested in the future and new technology, as well as science and rationalism. He's written two non-fiction books on the metaverse, and three books on cancer, including This Book Won't Cure Your Cancer, challenging society's assumptions when it comes to the disease.
He trained as a journalist and spent 10 years writing for major UK newspapers and magazines, and then running a copywriting agency.
Gideon is married, lives in east London with three children, and hundreds of worms. He's a keen cyclist, a qualified cycle mechanic and his home office is Pret a Manger.
He loves travelling on trains, eating Indian and Chinese food, and might actually be a ninja at night.
Like everyone else in the world, he drinks lots of coffee and loves the smell of new, unsullied stationery.
Gideon loves giving stuff away.
You'll always find something free at his website, www.gideon-burrows.com, where you can also join his Reader's Club.
Or else guilty. Or exhilarated. Or maybe a combination of these things.
Like taking a cold shower.
His near future novels, including Future Shop and Portico, tackle the challenging world of the near future: how social media, the metaverse, virtual reality, multi-player games and more may be sending us to hell. You'll never let your kids on the internet again.
His contemporary novels, including The Illustrator's Daughter and The Spiral, are about families and individuals in difficult situations: whether facing brake-ups, illness, prejudice, mental health breakdown or domestic violence. Through challenging our fundamental believes and values, he aims to make every reader think about their own comfortable lives.
As G D Burrows, he writes action fiction about ninjas. Awesome ninjas, who wear cool ninja gowns, have high tech ninja weapons, and take on the bad guys with their super martial arts skills and techniques. Think James Bond or Jack Reacher – but in full ninja garb, and based in London's East End. That kind of thing.
Gideon is really interested in the future and new technology, as well as science and rationalism. He's written two non-fiction books on the metaverse, and three books on cancer, including This Book Won't Cure Your Cancer, challenging society's assumptions when it comes to the disease.
He trained as a journalist and spent 10 years writing for major UK newspapers and magazines, and then running a copywriting agency.
Gideon is married, lives in east London with three children, and hundreds of worms. He's a keen cyclist, a qualified cycle mechanic and his home office is Pret a Manger.
He loves travelling on trains, eating Indian and Chinese food, and might actually be a ninja at night.
Like everyone else in the world, he drinks lots of coffee and loves the smell of new, unsullied stationery.
Gideon loves giving stuff away.
You'll always find something free at his website, www.gideon-burrows.com, where you can also join his Reader's Club.
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November 9, 2018
I found this book very interesting and extremely helpful following my brain tumour diagnosis and have recommended this to many people already.
Gideon Burrows has written this from his own experience and gathered quotes and stories from all walks of life. I found I could relate to so much of it.
Reading his and others comments through the book made me feel less alone with my thoughts. It has a mass of information and links to take your research further. I firstly had purchased the kindle version but after many many highlighted sections decided I also needed a paperback copy and now have both which I pick up regularly.
Living with a low grade tumour has so many what ifs, life is now living in limbo but it does help to know others have been where I am and more will follow....
Thank you to Gideon Burrows for this book which I highly recommend to anyone unfortunate enough to need to learn more about brain tumours and the many many questions and uncertainties that follow diagnosis.
Gideon Burrows has written this from his own experience and gathered quotes and stories from all walks of life. I found I could relate to so much of it.
Reading his and others comments through the book made me feel less alone with my thoughts. It has a mass of information and links to take your research further. I firstly had purchased the kindle version but after many many highlighted sections decided I also needed a paperback copy and now have both which I pick up regularly.
Living with a low grade tumour has so many what ifs, life is now living in limbo but it does help to know others have been where I am and more will follow....
Thank you to Gideon Burrows for this book which I highly recommend to anyone unfortunate enough to need to learn more about brain tumours and the many many questions and uncertainties that follow diagnosis.
September 18, 2016
Giddeon Burrows book gave me some personal insight into the world of which I am now a part. I actually did learn some new medical information, like how the drug Gilolan makes tumors glow nearly doubly the results of a resection where it is available and that increase is vascularity is a determiner of the tumor transitioning to high grade. The 'Low Grade" world is unique in that the tumor is not currently a threat, but will be, so it is a time bomb that both the medical profession and friends and family are not sure how to react to.
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