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Sons Antonio and Costa Fantis share how symptoms of their father’s brain tumor manifested like a phantom smell.
He was inoperable, with a “healthy and healthy” man being diagnosed with a catastrophic diagnosis. Brain tumor – And his only symptom was that he randomly smelled the “sweet caramel.”
Costa Fantis, 57, will have a random smell of sweets, his son, Antonio said. Daily Mail. “The sense of smell changed and he kept getting this strange sweet caramel smell. We didn’t think much about it. We didn’t know it was a very serious symptom.”
Antonio shared that his father, the owner of a tip shop from the British town of Stoke-on-Trent, would sporadically smell “sweet.”
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Costa Fantis with his wife, Christella.
His father had a hard time Epilepsy Antonio explains as a child, “We told him to do a scan and said it was probably related to epilepsy. He was a really healthy, healthy man so he didn’t think about anything at all.”
When Costa took the test in April 2024, the family was given dark, unexpected news: he had a Stage 4 IDH-WildType Glioblastoma. “There is no cure Glioblastoma” Mayo Clinic I’ll explain it. “Treatment can slow the growth of cancer and reduce symptoms.” National Medical Library idh-wildtype [glioblastoma] – Costa has – “an incurable disease with low survival rate.”
Antonio explains that the family was “worried, scared and nervous, but still, they are trying to understand the situation and what was going on.” “It’s really weird because the symptoms he had none at all,” Antonio told the outlet.
The smell of the phantom is known as phantom disease, as Costa experienced with the caramel scent, and rarely Brain tumor.
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Costa Fantis had no symptoms other than a phantom smell.
Antonio told the outlet that his father had received chemotherapy and radiation for the tumor, but now that he has not changed his glioblastoma treatment, his father has shared that he has received chemotherapy and radiation.
“It’s extremely scary to be diagnosed,” Antonio says she shares his family.
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