Dr NK Venkataramanaa, Vice Chairman & Chief Neurosurgeon, BGS Global Hospital reported five-year survival of an 11-year-old boy from Bangalore diagnosed with brain stem glioma in 2009. It is a rare feat for the doctor and his patient as average survival of patient diagnosed with brain stem glioma is less than two years.
Dr Venkataramanaa said,”I am elated that the child has survived for five years and has remained event free after his last treatment. In my knowledge this is the first case of long-term survival of brain stem glioma in Karnataka.”
Mithun developed headache, vomiting and imbalance while walking and was subsequently diagnosed with Brain stem Glioma. He underwent surgery in January 2009 but came back in May 2013 with regrowth. Using the new radio surgery technology Mithun was treated again. He is fully mobile, and there has been no neurological deficit. The child is one of the rare survivors of brain stem glioma who is not event free. The treatment was subsidised and cost his coconut merchant father around 2.5 lakhs. Mithun has just finished his mid-term exams for 5th grade. He goes for clinical check-ups every three months and MRI scans every six-months.
EH News Bureau
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