If the tumor is the same size or smaller and you did not have too many problems with the treatment, you will be recommended to have 8 more treatments of suramin. If the scans show that the tumor is growing you will not receive any more suramin. Your physician will talk to you about other treatments at that time. The radiation that you will receive is not experimental. It is the usual type of radiation therapy that is given to patients with glioblastoma.
Radiation therapy is given five days each week for about six weeks.
It is given in the outpatient department. Your body usually makes a hormone called cortisone. This hormone helps the body during periods of illness or stress. Suramin can lower the body s production of this hormone. Because of this, you will have to take daily pills of this hormone indefinitely.