Kane's Kick Butt: The Fight for Dad

I am Melanie Kane, the oldest of three daughters.


Our father Steven Kane, is the most important man in our lives. He has always been there, always balancing the all women household, and always happy to help us through everything.


Now its our turn to help him. The doctors have found a Glioblastoma Multiforme which is cancer and grows very rapidly.


Glioblastoma multiforme


glioblastoma", also known as Grade IV Astrocytoma is the most common and most aggressive malignant primary brain tumor in humans, involving glial cells and accounting for 52% of all functional tissue brain tumor cases and 20% of all intracranial tumors.


GBM is a rare disease Treatment can involve chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Median survival with standard-of-care radiation and chemotherapy with temozolomide is 15 months.[3] Median survival without treatment is 4½ months. Although no randomized controlled trials have been done, surgery remains the standard of care.


Signs and symptoms


Main article: Brain tumor


Although common symptoms of the disease include seizure, nausea and vomiting, headache, memory loss, and hemiparesis, the single most prevalent symptom is a progressive memory, personality, or neurological deficit due to temporal and frontal lobe involvement. The kind of symptoms produced depends highly on the location of the tumor, more so than on its pathological properties. The tumor can start producing symptoms quickly, but occasionally is an asymptomatic condition until it reaches an enormous size.



Prognosis


The median survival time from the time of diagnosis without any treatment is 3 months, but with treatment survival of 1–2 years is common. Increasing age (> 60 years of age) carries a worse prognostic risk.


Chemo and radiation has been completed at this time, but the chemo process will restart again forever. It is possible that radiation will be required, but unknown at this time.



Steven wont be able to return to work for and he was an independent contractor which means his paychecks have now ended and no income will be coming in.


My family needs help getting through this tough time and I have creating this donation page to ease his financial worries while he receives care and treatment. Please pray for him and help if you can, we all are very grateful for any generosity.

Love, the Kane Family