Can Someone Please Tell Me What This Man Is Saying (Medical Diagnosis of Some Kind)

[HeyHomie]

Within the first few seconds of this video, a young man gives his medical diagnosis, but all I can understand is “multi focal…” before he descends into medical-speak that I can’t understand. It’s a form of brain cancer. Any ideas?

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[KarlGauss]

He’s saying multifocal myxopapillary ependymoma.

[dasmoocher]

Hard to make out what he’s saying, since he says it quickly, but maybe “Multi-focal Myxopapillary Ependymoma”?

Example case: Multi-focal Myxopapillary Ependymoma in the Lumbar and Sacral Regions Requiring Cranio-spinal Radiation Therapy: A Case Report

Abstract:
Ependymomas are uncommon tumors that arise in the brain, spinal cord or cauda equina. Myxopapillary ependymomas is located exclusively in the conus medullaris or cauda equina, or film terminale region. In most myxopapillary ependymomas, the histological examination reveals low mitotic activity that is associated with a low MIB-1 labeling index (LI). The prognosis is generally favorable, when the appropriate treatment, including a total resection, is performed. The authors encountered a 39-year-old man with multifocal type of myxopapillary ependymomas compressing the cauda equina from the L2 to L3 level and L5-S1 level. A subtotal resection of the tumor was carried out. The histological examination revealed extremely high mitotic activity with a MIB-1 LI of 9.1%. Therefore, cranio-spinal radiation was added after surgery. The postoperative course was uneventful over the 3.5 year follow-up period.

Edit: Ninja’ed by Karl Gauss

[Senegoid]

@KarlGauss

He’s saying multifocal myxopapillary ependymoma.

Gaak! If you pronounce that backwards, do you get deported back home to the 5th dimension?