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New hope in the treatment of brain cancer!

October 19, 2014

GlioblastomaResearchers at the University of Calgary say a new treatment plan for an aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma is showing promise.

A combination of two drugs increased the lifespan of animals in test trials by 30 per cent, according to researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute.

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Filed Under: Brain Cancer Tagged With: Brain Cancer

Bold Surgery Needed in Mutant Astrocytomas – Brain Cancer

June 8, 2012

CHICAGO – Patients diagnosed with a mutant type of astrocytic glioma should have aggressive surgery to resect as much tumor as possible because these individuals may be able to achieve long-term survival, researchers said here.

In patients identified with the IDH1-mutation and who had less than 2 cc of residual tumor, survival was greater than 95% over nearly 17 years, compared with a survival of 20% among patients with a larger residual tumor (P=0.01), said Daniel Cahill, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Harvard.

“This is personalized surgery for these patients,” Cahill told MedPage Today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Brain Cancer Tagged With: Astrocytomas, Brain Cancer

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