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This blog is the continuation of my book “Life with GBM Brain Cancer: Blessing in Disguise”, published on Amazon world wide. This book is a narration of my on-going struggle with the most aggressive of brain cancers called Glioblastoma Multiform (GBM). With half of the patients dying under 15 months after diagnosis, I feel lucky …

IIFT Alumni Meet – UK and Yuvraj Singh

My alma mater IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), hosted an alumni meet of UK and EU chapter in London on Friday 8th July in Grand Royale Hotel, at Hyde Park in London. We have around 150 alumni living in the UK and the meet was attended by around 38 alumni. It was co-ordinated and …

MRI Scan Jan 2022

My MRI Scans continued and the first scan for the year 2022 was held on Friday, January 21, 2022 at UCLH (University College London Hospitals) in Central London. As mentioned earlier, my Oncologist Dr. Mulholland who was treating me from MVCC (Mount Vernon Cancer Centre) from early 2016 till September 2021, had given me an …

Join Braintrust UK

During my scan meeting with Dr Mulholland on September 9th, 2021, he had advised me to contact a Brain Cancer charity/trust of the UK named ‘Braintrust’ (https://brainstrust.org.uk/), and gave the contact details of its co-founder, Dr Helen Bulbeck. I wrote an email to Helen in mid September and received an instant and ‘very encouraging’ reply …

MRI Scan September 2021

Dr. Mulholland had fixed the next scan date on September 3rd, 2021. I had settled down in my ‘garden house’ and had started to create the second edition of my book, along with the Hindi version of my website bjmanch.in and made it available at https://www.bjmanch.in/hi/. However, there have been a couple of minor issues …