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Faith Kutere |
March 12th 2021 at 16:38:59 GMT +0300
Madlene Cherop, 23, and her father Sergeant Richard have flown to India seven times in the past six years seeking medication in which two surgical operations, embolization and radiosurgery were done to treat her brain haemorrhage.
They all failed since the condition recurred.
But after battling the rare brain condition known as Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) for seven years, Madlene underwent a successful surgery a week ago to remove it.
She has been in and out of the hospital, suffering from severe headaches and could sometimes pass out since 2014 when she was a student at Bishop Njenga Girls’ High School.
is generally speaking the prognosis. you know, in general we hear cancer in the brain and we think the worst and it s never a good thing but in this case i was encouraged these spots are small. he mentioned two millimeters in size. that s about the size of the tip of a ball point pen. these are spots that often we ll just watch if patients aren t having symptoms. in this case his radiation oncologist who actually is a friend, a very good doctors, he s in great hands, will probably treat that with a focal form of radiation therapy. sometimes we use the term radio surgery but this is no cutting. it s often one or two treatments and then you re gone. he ll have four treatments spaced out over several weeks. i think he will do very well with that. dr. sanjay gupta joins us right now, our chief medical correspondent. sanjay, you were in that room, and before i get to the medicine here, let me just ask you about the experience itself because watching from afar here as i just said, it was