Dad died months after he ‘forgot where he was going’ while driving to LFC match

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1. A mate of mine had a good scoop of his brain taken out due to a tumour and the only side effect he had afterwards was completely forgetting the number 7 existed, which he said was a bit of a nightmare at the bookies. (It eventually came back.)

   Anyway, what kind of headline is that?

   It’s like *”Man dies 83 years after his birth!”*

2. It’s not widely publicised, but there is some really successful work going on it Germany, where they’re using immunotherapy to target glioblastoma.

   It’s not a cure. It’s not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but it can gain you precious time for an incurable cancer that has an average post diagnosis survival of a year.

   Don’t rely on the NHS if you’re in this situation. Advocate for you or your family. And hope that we’re as close as it’s starting to feel to an actual cure, albeit not one that can help anyone diagnosed now.

3. The headline confused me. It made it sound like getting lost killed him. That headline seriously needs rewriting.

   Turns out he was diagnosed with glioblastoma

4. To give them benefit of the doubt – that headline is to ecourage people to go to a doctor when some weird shit like that happens to them. Men especially.

   But it does require to read the article.

5. Why “dad” and not a “man”? What’s up with British news putting mom and dad in news titles??

6. I’m always forgetting where I’m going. I suppose when I die this will become newsworthy? This is a very strange headline.